title: date formatting in sapui5
body: <p>I have this date coming in the json- startDate: "2014-12-07T00:00:00" and the view should render this as- Dec 7, 2014.
  and I used the follwoing to format it.</p>
  
  <pre><code>text="{ path: 'startDate',
          type: 'sap.ui.model.type.Date',
          formatOptions: {
                  source: {pattern: 'yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss'}, 
                  style: 'medium'
         }}"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am not clear how this date formatting works. I mean what is the pattern that needs to be given?
  Please help me with this. thanks !</p>