Say you have a list of dates and you want to format them into multiple separate formats.

For example, you have 2 dates:

• today at the current time
• yesterday at the current time

And want to to get multiple infos about them:

• date
• time

In the end you want to have 2 arrays called date() and time() where each array contains the appropriate format for each date. For example

• date() should contain 2016-10-19,2016-10-18
• time() should contain 10:53:52,10:53:52 (because the 2 dates are at the same time of day)

STEP 1 - SET TEST DATES

• Create a test task
• Add a Variable Set action where you set %now to %TIMES

%TIMES contains the current date in seconds since January 1st, 1970

• Add another Variable Set action where you set %yesterday to %TIMES - 86400 and enable the Do Maths option

86400 is the number of seconds in a day so this will set %yesterday to a date at the same time as %now minus a day

STEP 2 - FORMATTING 2 DATES WITH 2 FORMATS

• Add an AutoTools Time action
• Tap Format Dates
• Set Dates To Format to %now,%yesterday
• Enable the Use Seconds option
• Set Formats to yyyy-MM-dd|HH:mm:ss

Here you're separating the 2 formats you want with a | character. This can be any character or characters you want as long as it doesn't appear in the rest of the format you want to use.

• Go back to Tasker and add a Flash action with the text %atformatteddate()
• Run the task and check how the 2 dates appear separated by a comma and the 2 formats of each date appear separated by a |

The flash will show something like 2016-10-19|10:53:52,2016-10-18|10:53:52 where 2016-10-19|10:53:52 is the first item of the array and 2016-10-18|10:53:52 is the second one

STEP 3 - SEPARATING DATES FROM TIMES

• Add an AutoTools Arrays action
• Set the input to %atformatteddate()
• Enable Vertical Mode

Vertical Mode is used because the data is setup in a column like fashion. Non-Vertical Mode would need the data to be something like 2016-10-19|2016-10-18,10:53:52|10:53:52 instead

• Set the Input Arrays Separator to ,
• Set the Item Separator to |

As you can see in the data, every format is separated with a | character and every date is separated with a , character so we have to switch these around

• In the Output section set Names to dates,times
• Go back to Tasker and add a Flash action with the text
  • %dates()
  • %times()
• Run the task and check how the last flash will show the dates separated into the wanted formats.

In the end, the flash will show something like

2016-10-19,2016-10-18

10:53:52,10:53:52