| Format | Description | Example returned values
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| Day
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| %a | An abbreviated textual representation of the day | Sun through Sat
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| %A | A full textual representation of the day | Sunday through Saturday
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| %d | Two-digit day of the month (with leading zeros) | 01 to 31
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| %e | Day of the month, with a space preceding single digits | 1 to 31
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| %j | Day of the year, 3 digits with leading zeros | 001 to 366
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| %u | ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week | 1 (for Monday) though 7 (for Sunday)
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| %w | Numeric representation of the day of the week | 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)
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| 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)
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| %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)
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| %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)
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| Month
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| %b | Abbreviated month name, based on the locale | Jan through Dec
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| %B | Full month name, based on the locale | January through December
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| %h | Abbreviated month name, based on the locale (an alias of %b) | Jan through Dec
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| %m | Two digit representation of the month | 01 (for January) through 12 (for December)
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| 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
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| %g | Two digit representation of the year going by ISO-8601:1988 standards (see %V) | Example: 09 for the week of January 6, 2009
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| %G | The full four-digit version of %g | Example: 2008 for the week of January 3, 2009
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| %y | Two digit representation of the year | Example: 09 for 2009, 79 for 1979
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| %Y | Four digit representation for the year | Example: 2038
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| Time
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| %H | Two digit representation of the hour in 24-hour format | 00 through 23
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| %I | Two digit representation of the hour in 12-hour format | 01 through 12
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| %l (lower-case 'L') | Hour in 12-hour format, with a space preceeding single digits | 1 through 12
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| %M | Two digit representation of the minute | 00 through 59
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| %p | UPPER-CASE 'AM' or 'PM' based on the given time | Example: AM for 00:31, PM for 22:23
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| %P | lower-case 'am' or 'pm' based on the given time | Example: am for 00:31, pm for 22:23
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| %r | Same as %I:%M:%S %p | Example: 09:34:17 PM for 21:34:17
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| %R | Same as %H:%M | Example: 00:35 for 12:35 AM, 16:44 for 4:44 PM
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| %S | Two digit representation of the second | 00 through 59
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| %T | Same as %H:%M:%S | Example: 21:34:17 for 09:34:17 PM
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| %X | Preferred time representation based on locale, without the date | Example: 03:59:16 or 15:59:16
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| %z | Either the time zone offset from UTC or the abbreviation (depends on operating system) | Example: -0500 or EST for Eastern Time
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| %Z | The time zone offset/abbreviation option NOT given by %z (depends on operating system) | Example: -0500 or EST for Eastern Time
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| 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
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| %D | Same as %m/%d/%y | Example: 02/05/09 for February 5, 2009
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| %F | Same as %Y-%m-%d (commonly used in database datestamps) | Example: 2009-02-05 for February 5, 2009
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| %s | Unix Epoch Time timestamp (same as the time() function) | Example: 305815200 for September 10, 1979 08:40:00 AM
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| %x | Preferred date representation based on locale, without the time | Example: 02/05/09 for February 5, 2009
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| 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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