History: Date and Time Features

            ! Date and time

This is page is to document all the feature related to date and time. Ex.: how to configure the date/time formats 

*Long date format
*Short date format
*Long time format
*Short time format

on tiki-admin.php?page=general

Formatting is done by the ''strftime'' function.

The following characters are recognized in the format parameter string:

||__Format__|__Description__|__Example returned values__
__Day__
%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__
%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__
%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__
%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__
%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__
%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 ~np~%m/%d/%y~/np~|Example: 02/05/09 for February 5, 2009
%F|Same as ~np~%Y-%m-%d~/np~ (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__
%n|A newline character ("\n")|
%t|A Tab character ("\t")|
%%|A literal percentage character ("%")|
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[http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php]

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