21.1.2 Date directives
date
directives related to dates.
- `%a'
- locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun...Sat)
- `%A'
- locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday...Saturday)
- `%b'
- locale's abbreviated month name (Jan...Dec)
- `%B'
- locale's full month name, variable length (January...December)
- `%c'
- locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)
- `%C'
- century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) (00...99)
- `%d'
- day of month (01...31)
- `%D'
- date (mm/dd/yy)
- `%e'
- blank-padded day of month (1...31)
- `%F'
- the ISO 8601 standard date format:
%Y-%m-%d
.
This is the preferred form for all uses.
- `%g'
- The year corresponding to the ISO week number, but without the century
(range
00
through 99
). This has the same format and value
as %y
, except that if the ISO week number (see %V
) belongs
to the previous or next year, that year is used instead.
- `%G'
- The year corresponding to the ISO week number. This has the same format
and value as
%Y
, except that if the ISO week number (see
%V
) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used
instead.
- `%h'
- same as %b
- `%j'
- day of year (001...366)
- `%m'
- month (01...12)
- `%u'
- day of week (1...7) with 1 corresponding to Monday
- `%U'
- week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00...53).
Days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are in week zero.
- `%V'
- week number of year with Monday as first day of the week as a decimal
(01...53). If the week containing January 1 has four or more days in
the new year, then it is considered week 1; otherwise, it is week 53 of
the previous year, and the next week is week 1. (See the ISO 8601
standard.)
- `%w'
- day of week (0...6) with 0 corresponding to Sunday
- `%W'
- week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00...53).
Days in a new year preceding the first Monday are in week zero.
- `%x'
- locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)
- `%y'
- last two digits of year (00...99)
- `%Y'
- year (1970....)
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