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....)