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FORMAT CODES FOR THE TIME FORMAT STRING

Format Codes for the Time Format String

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The Format Date/Time String function calculates the date and time
and formats the output string according to the following format codes.

Format
Value
Code

<%a> abbreviated weekday name (for example Wed)

<%A> full weekday name (for example Wednesday)

<%b> abbreviated month name (for example Jun)

<%B> full month name (for example June)

<%c> locale-specific default date and time

<%d> day of month (01–31)

<%H> hour (24-hour clock) (00–23)

<%I> hour (12-hour clock) (01–12)

<%j> day number of the year (001–366)

<%m> month number (01–12)

<%M> minute (00–59)

<%p> AM or PM flag

<%S> second (00–59)

<%
<digit> fractional seconds with <digit> precision
u>

week number of the year (00–53), with the first Sunday

<%U>
as the first day of week one; 00 represents the first week

weekday as a decimal number (0–6), with 0

<%w>
representing Sunday

week number of the year (00–53), with the first Monday

<%W>
as the first day of week one; 00 represents the first week

<%x> locale-specific date

<%.1x> long date format

<%.2x> abbreviated long date format

<%X> locale-specific time

year within century (00–99); when you scan the

numbers, numbers (00–68) represent years in the
<%y> twenty-first century (2000–2068) and numbers (69–
99) represent years in the twentieth century (1969–
1999)

<%Y> year, including the century (for example, 1997)

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Format
Value
Code

difference between locale time and universal time

<%z>
(HH:MM:SS)

time zone name or abbreviation, depending on the

<%Z>
operating system locale settings

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