Ever wish you had more control over the date/time in your email templates? Ever wish you could format a date and / or time in the ISN exactly how you want?

You can with the {dt} function in your email templates. The function allows you to:

Here is an example of the {dt} function in use:

{dt date="%inspectiondate%" modify="+6 Day" format="m/d/Y"}

You'll notice a few parameters:

date = the date (in this case inspection date (notice how I did have to wrap that in quotes))
​modify = this is a statement of what to do w/ that date, in this case +6 days in the future
​format = this is the format to display the date in

"hey, I want to show the date in three days for radon pickup"

{dt date="%inspectiondate%" modify="+3 Day" format="m/d/Y"}

"hey, can I put two days before the inspection?"

{dt date="%inspectiondate%" modify="-2 Day" format="m/d/Y"}

"hey, I want to send an email and show the customer that they should attend 2 hours AFTER I start my inspection?"

{dt date="%inspectiontime%" modify="+2 Hour" format="g:iA"}

"hey, I want a space between my time and the AM / PM?"

{dt date="%inspectiontime%" modify="0 Hour" format="g:i A"}

Here are acceptable values for the date/time formats:

d - Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros
​D - A textual representation of a day, three letters
​j - Day of the month without leading zeros
​l (lowercase 'L') - A full textual representation of the day of the week
​N - ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week
​S - English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters
​w - Numeric representation of the day of the week
​z - The day of the year (starting from 0)
​W - ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday
​F - A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March
​m - Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros
​M - A short textual representation of a month, three letters
​n - Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros
​t - Number of days in the given month
​L - Whether it's a leap year
​o - ISO-8601 week-numbering year.
​Y - A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits
​y - A two digit representation of a year
​a - Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
​A - Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
​B - Swatch Internet time
​g - 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
​G - 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
​h - 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
​H - 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
​i - Minutes with leading zeros
​s - Seconds, with leading zeros
​c - ISO 8601 date
​r - RFC 2822 formatted date

If you have any questions about this process please let us know! You can reach us by chat, email at help@inspectionsupport.com, or phone at (800) 700-8112.