---
title: FormatDate
slug: neurons-for-itsm/admin-user-help/enu/latest/formatdate
createdAt: 2026-07-14T19:16:25.273Z
---

Returns the local date and/or time formatted as specified.

## Syntax

FormatDate(date, format, timeZone)

## Enabled For

For a description of the business object categories, see [Notes on "Enabled For"](docId\:u26v9feCFs6iLwA0-PVJd).

| Business Object Category                                                                    | Yes/No |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ |
| Business Rules: Before-Save Rules                                                           | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Calculation Rules (After Save, with or without Also Recalculate on Load)    | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Calculation Rules (Before Save or Always, without Also Recalculate On Load) | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Calculation Rules (Before Save or Always, with Recalculate On Load)         | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Editing Rules                                                               | Yes1   |
| Business Rules: Initialization Rules                                                        | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Read Only Rules                                                             | No     |
| Business Rules: Required Rules                                                              | Yes1   |
| Business Rules: Validation Rules                                                            | Yes1   |
| Client Expressions                                                                          | No     |
| Object Permissions                                                                          | No     |
| Services                                                                                    | Yes    |
| LDAP                                                                                        | Yes    |
| Mobile                                                                                      | Yes    |
| Quick Actions (except Export to Microsoft Excel Quick Action and UI Quick Actions)          | Yes    |
| UI Quick Actions                                                                            | No     |
| Reports                                                                                     | Yes    |
| Search/Dashboard without field references                                                   | Yes    |
| Search/Dashboard with field references                                                      | Yes    |
| 1. Except when this field appears on a form or is triggered by such a field.                |        |

## Parameters

| Parameter | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| date      | The date and/or time to format.                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| format    | The format for the date and/or time.  See [Standard date and time format strings](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-date-and-time-format-strings) for information about the accepted formats. |
| timeZone  | (Optional) The time zone, in IANA format.                                                                                                                                                                                         |

## Return Value

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String representation of date time value.
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## Example

`$(FormatDate(ResolvedDateTime, "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm"))`

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If the value of the **ResolvedDateTime** field is April 14, 2017 at 1:25pm, the above example returns 14.04.2017 13:25.
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