[interchange-docs] Date/Time Format Specifiers

Stefan Hornburg racke at linuxia.de
Fri Mar 24 16:49:04 EST 2006


Hello,

this would be a nice addition for the [time] documentation:


	<chapter id="ref.strftime">
	  <title>Format Strings for [time]</title>
	  <table>
		<title>Format Strings for [time]</title>
		<tgroup cols="4">
		  <thead>
			<row>
			  <entry>Format String</entry>
			  <entry>Description</entry>
			  <entry>Range</entry>
			  <entry>Example</entry>
			</row>
		  </thead>
		  <tbody>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%c</literal></entry>
			  <entry>date and time</entry>
			  <entry></entry>
			  <entry><literal>Mon Apr 12 14:17:46 2004</literal></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%x</literal></entry>
			  <entry>date</entry>
			  <entry></entry>
			  <entry><literal>01/18/2004</literal></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%X</literal></entry>
			  <entry>time</entry>
			  <entry></entry>
			  <entry><literal>14:17:46</literal></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><programlisting>%Y
%y</programlisting></entry>
			  <entry>year</entry>
			  <entry></entry>
			  <entry><programlisting>2004
04</programlisting></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%j</literal></entry>
			  <entry>day of the year</entry>
			  <entry>0-366</entry>
			  <entry><literal>112</literal></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%m</literal></entry>
			  <entry>month</entry>
			  <entry>01-12</entry>
			  <entry><literal>01</literal></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><programlisting>%B
%b</programlisting></entry>
			  <entry>month name</entry>
			  <entry></entry>
			  <entry><programlisting>January
Jan</programlisting></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%d</literal></entry>
			  <entry>day of the month</entry>
			  <entry>01-31</entry>
			  <entry><literal>08</literal></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><programlisting>%U
%W</programlisting></entry>
			  <entry>week number (Sunday/Monday)</entry>
			  <entry><programlisting>00-53
00-53</programlisting></entry>
			  <entry><programlisting>23
23</programlisting></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%d</literal></entry>
			  <entry>weekday</entry>
			  <entry>0-6</entry>
			  <entry><literal>08</literal></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><programlisting>%A
%a</programlisting></entry>
			  <entry>weekday name</entry>
			  <entry></entry>
			  <entry><programlisting>Sunday
Sun</programlisting></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><programlisting>%H
%I</programlisting></entry>
			  <entry>hour</entry>
			  <entry><programlisting>00-23
00-12</programlisting></entry>
			  <entry><programlisting>23
11</programlisting></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%p</literal></entry>
			  <entry>AM/PM</entry>
			  <entry></entry>
			  <entry><literal>PM</literal></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%M</literal></entry>
			  <entry>minute</entry>
			  <entry>00-59</entry>
			  <entry><literal>57</literal></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%S</literal></entry>
			  <entry>second</entry>
			  <entry>00-59</entry>
			  <entry><literal>57</literal></entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			  <entry><literal>%Z</literal></entry>
			  <entry>time zone name</entry>
			  <entry></entry>
			  <entry><literal>CEST</literal></entry>
			</row>
		  </tbody>
		</tgroup>
	  </table>


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