Openhab: How to show only the day from a "date-String"

[rossko57]

I suppose you might consider converting your string to date time of some kind, so that you can format it as you want.

DateTime Conversion (openHAB 2.x)

Because openHAB 3.x rules now use Java Time API instead of Jodatime, there is a new DateTime Conversion thread for openHAB 3.x. Overview In openHab 2.x there are different ways to handle Date/Time values. DateTimeType A DateTime Item carries a DateTimeType. Joda DateTime By default openHAB 2.x-Rules use a Joda DateTime class to represent time, most notably now. Epoch The lowest common denominator when working with time is to get at the epoc value. Epoc is the number of milliseconds …