Overview

A skills builder user can capture a date in various formats including Epoch and translate it in a user-friendly manner. 

The following strings are available to manage the date format, which helps translating dates that were either specified by a user or from a web service. This is useful for displaying a date back to a user or passing a date to another web service in the required format.

• <attribute_idenitifier>_iso_tz
• <attribute_idenitifier>_iso_no_tz

Example:

The Attribute Name = date_time

The supported date format is Epoch format (1560576600). The following strings can be used for APIs in the Outbound Mapping section to support:

ISO with time zone: 

        date_time_iso_tz -> ISO 8601 format with timezone (2019-06-15T11:00:00+05:30)

ISO without time zone:
        date_time_iso_no_tz -> ISO 8601 format without timezone (2019-06-15T11:00:00)

Usage in the text response:

Configuration string in a skill:

Here is the date in epoch: @context.date_time and in ISO 8601 format: @context.date_time_iso_tz and iso without timezone format: @context.date_time_iso_no_t'.

Text response displayed to the end-user with actual values:

Here is the date in epoch: 1560576600 and in ISO 8601 format: 2019-06-15T11:00:00+05:30 and iso without timezone format: 2019-06-15T11:00:00