strftime reference This note was created on 2023-03-13 This note was last edited 2023-03-13 === Years === %y - Year without a century (00..99) %Y - Year with century === Months === %b - Abbreviated month name (Jan) %B - Full month name (January) %m - Month of the year (01..12) === Weeks === %w - Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6) %U - Week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week (00..53) %V - Week number of year according to ISO 8601 (01..53) === Days === %a - Abbreviated weekday name (“Sun”) %A - Full weekday name (Sunday) %w - Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6) %u - Day of the week (Monday is 1, 1..7) %d - Day of the month (01..31) %e - Day of the month (1..31) %j - Day of the year (001..366) === Hours === %H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23) %I - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12) %p - Meridian indicator (AM or PM) %P - Meridian indicator (“am” or “pm”) %k - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..23) %l - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..12) === Minutes === %M - Minute of the hour (00..59) === Seconds === %S - Second of the minute (00..60) %L - Millisecond of the second (000..999) %s - Number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. === Others === %c - Preferred local date and time representation %Z - Time zone name %% - Literal % character %C - Century (20 in 2009) %D - U.S. Date (%m/%d/%y) %n - Newline (n) %t - Tab character (t)