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Using KRename: Date Formatting

KRename: The Free Batch Renamer

By Juergen Haas, About.com

2) Using KRename

2.5) Building The Filename

2.5.5) Date Formatting

The tokens returnig a date return it always using a builtin default format of KRename. This default should be ok for most cases. For the few cases where you need a different format, KRename has a solutions. You can append a ; and after the semi colon a free form string to describe the date format you want. For example [date;yyyy-MM-dd] will result in the date being formatted yyyy-MM-dd (i.e 2005-01-08). But there are not only placeholders for the date, but also for the time. You could for example built a custom [time] token using the date token as follows: [date;hh-mm]. This works currently with the following tokens: [date], [accessdate], [creationdate] and [modificationdate].

The following place holders are supported to describe the date format:

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Table of Contents:

1) Introduction
    1.1) What is KRename?
    1.2) How much does it cost?
    1.3) Where can I get it?
    1.4) I need help, whom can I ask?

2) Using KRename
    2.1) The First Start
    2.2) Adding Files
            2.2.1) File Previews
            2.2.2) Sorting Files
    2.3) Rename, Copy or Move?
    2.4) Plugins
    2.5) Building the filename
            2.5.1) Building the filename – Beginners Mode
            2.5.2) Building the filename – Advanced Mode
            2.5.3) Available tokens in KRename
            2.5.4) Advanced renaming features
            2.5.5) Date formatting
    2.6) Renaming Completed

3) Examples
     3.1) Sorting your picture collection – Beginners Mode
     3.2) Capitalizing some files – Beginners Mode
     3.3) Converting filenames to lower case – Advanced Mode
     3.4) Renaming your mp3 collection – Advanced Mode
     3.5) Replacing spaces with underscores – Advanced Mode

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