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%a – The abbreviated name of the day of the week according to the current operating system locale.

%A – The full name of the day of the week according to the current operating system locale.

%b – The abbreviated month name according to the current operating system locale.

%B – The full month name according to the current operating system locale.

%c – The preferred date and time representation for the current operating system locale.

%C – The century number (year/100) as a 2-digit integer.

%d – The day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31).

%D – Equivalent to %m/%d/%y (American-specific format. It should be noted that in other countries %d/%m/%y is far more common which means that in international context this format is ambiguous and should not be used).

%e – Like %d, the day of the month as a decimal number, but a leading zero is replaced by a space.

%E – Modifier: use alternative format, see below.

%F – Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format).

%G – The ISO 8601 week-based year with century as a decimal number. The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V). This has the same format and value as %Y, except that if the ISO week number belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead.

%g – Like %G, but without century, that is, with a 2-digit year (00-99).

%h – Equivalent to %b.

%H – The hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23).

%I – The hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12).

%j – The day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366).

%k – The hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 0 to 23); single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %H.)

%l – The hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 1 to 12); single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %I.)

%m – The month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12).

%M – The minute as a decimal number (range 00 to 59).

%n – A newline character.

%O – Modifier: use alternative format, see below.

%p – Either "AM" or "PM" according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale. Noon is treated as "PM" and midnight as "AM".

%P – Like %p but in lowercase: "am" or "pm" or a corresponding string for the current locale.

%r – The time in a.m. or p.m. notation. In the POSIX locale this is equivalent to %I:%M:%S %p.

%R – The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M). For a version including the seconds, see %T below.

%s – The number of seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).

%S – The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 60). (The range is up to 60 to allow for occasional leap seconds.)

%t – A tab character.

%T – The time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M:%S).

%u – The day of the week as a decimal, range 1 to 7, Monday being 1. See also %w.

%U – The week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 00 to 53, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of week 01. See also %V and %W.

%V – The ISO 8601 week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the new year. See also %U and %W.

%w – The day of the week as a decimal, range 0 to 6, Sunday being 0. See also %u.

%W – The week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 00 to 53, starting with the first Monday as the first day of week 01.

%x – The preferred date representation for the current locale without the time.

%X – The preferred time representation for the current locale without the date.

%y – The year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99).

%Y – The year as a decimal number including the century.

%z – The +hhmm or -hhmm numeric timezone (that is, the hour and minute offset from UTC).

%Z – The timezone name or abbreviation.

%% – A literal '%' character.