Date formats¶

Since 1.2.0 Datafaker supports specifying of date formats for dates and timestamps.

Java

Faker faker = new Faker();
System.out.println(faker.timeAndDate().future(1, TimeUnit.HOURS, "yyyy MM.dd mm:hh:ss"));
System.out.println(faker.timeAndDate().past(1, TimeUnit.HOURS, "yyyy-MM-dd mm:hh:ss"));
System.out.println(faker.timeAndDate().birthday(1, 99, "yyyy/MM/dd"));

And also this feature could be used in expressions like

Java

faker.expression("#{date.past '15','SECONDS','dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss'}");

List of available time units:

Name	Time unit	Since
NANO	NANOSECOND	1.2.0
NANOS	NANOSECOND	1.2.0
MICRO	MICROSECOND	1.2.0
MICROS	MICROSECOND	1.2.0
MILLI	MILLISECOND	1.2.0
MILLIS	MILLISECOND	1.2.0
SECOND	SECOND	1.2.0
SECONDS	SECOND	1.2.0
MINUTE	MINUTE	1.2.0
MINUTES	MINUTE	1.2.0
HOUR	HOUR	1.2.0
HOURS	HOUR	1.2.0
DAY	DAY	1.2.0
DAYS	DAY	1.2.0