| Day |
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| %a |
An abbreviated textual representation of the day |
Sun through Sat |
| %A |
A full textual representation of the day |
Sunday through Saturday |
| %d |
Two-digit day of the month (with leading zeros) |
01 to 31 |
| %e |
Day of the month, with a space preceding single digits |
1 to 31 |
| %j |
Day of the year, 3 digits with leading zeros |
001 to 366 |
| %u |
ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week |
1 (for Monday) though 7 (for Sunday) |
| %w |
Numeric representation of the day of the week |
0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) |
| Week |
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| %U |
Week number of the given year, starting with the first Sunday as the first week |
13 (for the 13th full week of the year) |
| %V |
ISO-8601:1988 week number of the given year, starting with the first week of the year with at least 4 weekdays, with Monday being the start of the week |
01 through 53 (where 53 accounts for an overlapping week) |
| %W |
A numeric representation of the week of the year, starting with the first Monday as the first week |
46 (for the 46th week of the year beginning with a Monday) |
| Month |
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| %b |
Abbreviated month name, based on the locale |
Jan through Dec |
| %B |
Full month name, based on the locale |
January through December |
| %h |
Abbreviated month name, based on the locale (an alias of %b) |
Jan through Dec |
| %m |
Two digit representation of the month |
01 (for January) through 12 (for December) |
| Year |
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| %C |
Two digit representation of the century (year divided by 100, truncated to an integer) |
19 for the 20th Century |
| %g |
Two digit representation of the year going by ISO-8601:1988 standards (see %V) |
Example: 09 for the week of January 6, 2009 |
| %G |
The full four-digit version of %g |
Example: 2008 for the week of January 3, 2009 |
| %y |
Two digit representation of the year |
Example: 09 for 2009, 79 for 1979 |
| %Y |
Four digit representation for the year |
Example: 2038 |
| Time |
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| %H |
Two digit representation of the hour in 24-hour format |
00 through 23 |
| %I |
Two digit representation of the hour in 12-hour format |
01 through 12 |
| %l (lower-case 'L') |
Hour in 12-hour format, with a space preceeding single digits |
1 through 12 |
| %M |
Two digit representation of the minute |
00 through 59 |
| %p |
UPPER-CASE 'AM' or 'PM' based on the given time |
Example: AM for 00:31, PM for 22:23 |
| %P |
lower-case 'am' or 'pm' based on the given time |
Example: am for 00:31, pm for 22:23 |
| %r |
Same as %I:%M:%S %p |
Example: 09:34:17 PM for 21:34:17 |
| %R |
Same as %H:%M |
Example: 00:35 for 12:35 AM, 16:44 for 4:44 PM |
| %S |
Two digit representation of the second |
00 through 59 |
| %T |
Same as %H:%M:%S |
Example: 21:34:17 for 09:34:17 PM |
| %X |
Preferred time representation based on locale, without the date |
Example: 03:59:16 or 15:59:16 |
| %z |
Either the time zone offset from UTC or the abbreviation (depends on operating system) |
Example: -0500 or EST for Eastern Time |
| %Z |
The time zone offset/abbreviation option NOT given by %z (depends on operating system) |
Example: -0500 or EST for Eastern Time |
| Time and Date Stamps |
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| %c |
Preferred date and time stamp based on local |
Example: Tue Feb 5 00:45:10 2009 for February 4, 2009 at 12:45:10 AM |
| %D |
Same as %m/%d/%y |
Example: 02/05/09 for February 5, 2009 |
| %F |
Same as %Y-%m-%d (commonly used in database datestamps) |
Example: 2009-02-05 for February 5, 2009 |
| %s |
Unix Epoch Time timestamp (same as the time() function) |
Example: 305815200 for September 10, 1979 08:40:00 AM |
| %x |
Preferred date representation based on locale, without the time |
Example: 02/05/09 for February 5, 2009 |
| Miscellaneous |
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| %n |
A newline character ("\n") |
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| %t |
A Tab character ("\t") |
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| %% |
A literal percentage character ("%") |
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