Time interval formats show the amount of elapsed time rather than an absolute date or time. Use interval templates for a date entry field that contains interval data.

As with the date format, you specify time interval formats by using a string to indicate exactly how you want a time interval to be printed. A representative interval has been selected to provide the example values you can use when specifying how you want the time to be printed. This example time interval is:

You can arrange various combinations of the units of the time interval in any order.