_docs-v1/date-library/formatDate.md
Formats a Date object into a string.
<div class='spec' markdown='1'> $.fullCalendar.formatDate( *date*, *formatString* [, *options* ] ) -> String </div>Prior to version 1.3, formatDate accepted a very different format. See here.
formatString is a combination of any of the following commands:
Special Characters:
'...'
: literal text
''
: single quote (represented by two single quotes)
(...)
: only displays format if one of the enclosed variables is non-zero
The options parameter can be used to override default locale options, such as monthNames, monthNamesShort, dayNames, and dayNamesShort.