The formatDate method returns the supplied date as a string formatted using the specified formatting options. The first parameter is the date to be formatted; the second is the formatting to be applied. The 'varDestLocale' parameter specifies the Locale to use in determining the sequence in which the date elements are to be supplied; if none is specified, then the sequence is month-day-year. The date can be formatted using the following codes:

• m
  months as 1-12
• mm
  months as 01-12
• mmm
  months as Jan-Dec
• mmmm
  months as January-December
• mmmmm
  months as the first letter of the month
• d
  days as 1-31
• dd
  days as 01-31
• ddd
  days as Sun-Sat
• dddd
  days as Sunday-Saturday
• yy
  years as 00-99
• yyyy
  years as 1900-9999