ss="special">}</span><span class="special">;</span></pre></div>
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<a name="idp46954864"></a><h2>Description</h2>
<p>Class that provides format based I/O facet for date types.</p>
<p>This class allows the formatting of dates by using format string. Format strings are:</p>
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<li class="listitem"><p>A =&gt; long_weekday_format - Full name Ex: Tuesday</p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>a =&gt; short_weekday_format - Three letter ab