Date / Time

The Date/Time Rule Type can be applied on extracted data where a date and/or time is expected.

The output format of the Date/Time Rule Type can be set by defining the locale and country. Other parsing formats can also be added by clicking on "Click here to add a new row".

Matching patterns for Date and Time can be specified in a list. The Date/Time Rule Type will run iterate through all the format entries in the list and try to match one to the data that was extracted. If a pattern was matched, the DateTime object can be build by correctly identifying the day (dd), month (MM), year (yyyy) components for Date, and hour (HH), minute (mm) and second (ss) compinents for Time. Additional formats can be added for both Date and Time by clicking on "Click here to add a new row".