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date conversion specifiers related to dates.
%a’Sun’)%A’Sunday’)%b’Jan’)%B’January’)%c’Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005’)%C’%Y’, except the last two digits are omitted. For example, it is ‘20’ if ‘%Y’ is ‘2000’, and is ‘-0’ if ‘%Y’ is ‘-001’. It is normally at least two characters, but it may be more.%d’01’)%D’%m/%d/%y’%e’%_d’%F’%+4Y-%m-%d’ except that any flags or field width override the ‘+’ and (after subtracting 6) the ‘4’. This is a good choice for a date format, as it is standard and is easy to sort in the usual case where years are in the range 0000…9999.%g’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’%Y’, except that if the ISO week number (see ‘%V’) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. It is normally useful only if ‘%V’ is also used; for example, the format ‘%G-%m-%d’ is probably a mistake, since it combines the ISO week number year with the conventional month and day.%h’%b’%j’001’…‘366’)%m’01’…‘12’)%q’1’…‘4’)%u’1’…‘7’) with ‘1’ corresponding to Monday%U’00’…‘53’). Days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are in week zero.%V’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’0’…‘6’) with 0 corresponding to Sunday%W’00’…‘53’). Days in a new year preceding the first Monday are in week zero.%x’12/31/99’)%y’00’…‘99’)%Y’0000’ precedes year ‘0001’, and year ‘-001’ precedes year ‘0000’.Next: Literal conversion specifiers, Previous: Time conversion specifiers, Up: date invocation [Contents][Index]