How to retrieve the user date format?

[peterraeves]

What's the function we can use to get the user's personal date format?

[Gowrisankar Sat · Accepted solution]

Yes, it was gs.getSession().getUser().getDateFormat()

[Chuck Tomasi]

That method appears to return the time format, there's also one for date format, which I think is what Peter was looking for.

gs.getSession().getUser().getDateFormat()

I just ran it in scripts background like this:

gs.info(gs.getSession().getUser().getDateFormat());

and it appeared to print the right value although I didn't do any checking after switching my profile. Testing costs extra.

[Gowrisankar Sat]

Yes, Testing costs extra

[Gowrisankar Sat]

Just go to user profile and check this field.

Date Format (date_format)

[prasanna11]

gs.info(gs.getSession().getUser().getDateFormat()); 

Will not work , if you are trying to run the script in bg script from a scoped app. This works on global scope only.