From Ate Ni 20 in Patterns Two Single Quotes Represents a Literal Single Quote in Your Case Formatter setDateFormat@EEE MMM Dd ''Yy Share Edit Flag Answered Apr 14 '14 at 1151 I 384k#53 #833 941 4imagine Those Guys Writing the Unicode Standards Dude What if They Want a Quote in Their Date Formatter? Yeah Well They'll First Think to Escape Characters With a Backslash Should We Go for Backslash Here Too? Nope Let's Use Another Quote and We'll State That in a 2 Line Paragraph in a 9-Chapter Document That'll Do It Feb 1 at 1519 Add a Comment Unicode Standards