FORMAT Example Description %% % a literal % %a Sun locale's abbreviated weekday name %A Sunday locale's full weekday name %b Mar locale's abbreviated month name %B March locale's full month name %c '%a %x %X' locale's date and time %C 20 century; like %Y, except omit last two digits %d 01 day of month %D 12/31/99 date (ambiguous); same as %m/%d/%y %e 1 day of month, space padded; same as %_d %F 1999-12-31 full date; like %+4Y-%m-%d %g 99 year of ISO week number (last two digits; 00-99); see %G %G 1999 year of ISO week number; normally useful only with %V %h Mar same as %b %H 23 hour (00..23) %I 01 hour (01..12) %j 365 day of year (001..366) %k 8 hour, space padded ( 0..23); same as %_H %l 9 hour, space padded ( 1..12); same as %_I %m 12 month (01..12) %M 59 minute (00..59) %n \n a newline %N 123456789 nanoseconds (000000000..999999999) %p PM locale's equivalent of AM or PM; blank if not known %P pm like %p, but lower case %q 4 quarter of year (1..4) %r 1:11:04 PM locale's 12-hour clock time %R 23:59 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M %s 1778169005 seconds since the Epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC) %S 59 second (00..60) %t \t a tab %T 23:59:59 time; same as %H:%M:%S %u 7 day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday %U 52 week number of year; Sunday as first day of week (00..53) %V 52 ISO week number; Monday as first day of week (01..53) %W 52 week number of year; Monday as first day of week (00..53) %w 6 day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday %x 12/31/99 locale's date (can be ambiguous) %X 23:59:59 locale's time representation %y 99 year (last two digits; 00..99) %Y 1999 year %z +0400 +hhmm numeric time zone %:z +04:00 +hh:mm numeric time zone %::z +04:00:00 +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone %:::z +04 numeric time zone to necessary precision; with : %Z EDT alphabetic time zone abbreviation