# Date and Time Specifiers

> Source: https://docs.recombee.com/time_specifiers

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt).

# Date and Time Specifiers

| Specifier | Replaced by                                                            | Example     |
| --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| %a        | Abbreviated weekday name \*                                            | Thu         |
| %A        | Full weekday name \*                                                   | Thursday    |
| %b        | Abbreviated month name \*                                              | Aug         |
| %B        | Full month name \*                                                     | August      |
| %c        | Date and time representation \*                                        | Thu Aug 23  |
| %C        | Year divided by 100 and truncated to integer (00-99)                   | 20          |
| %d        | Day of the month, zero-padded (01-31)                                  | 23          |
| %D        | Short MM/DD/YY date, equivalent to %m/%d/%y                            | 08/23/01    |
| %e        | Day of the month, space-padded ( 1-31)                                 | 23          |
| %F        | Short YYYY-MM-DD date, equivalent to %Y-%m-%d                          | 2001-08-23  |
| %g        | Week-based year, last two digits (00-99)                               | 1           |
| %G        | Week-based year                                                        | 2001        |
| %h        | Abbreviated month name \* (same as %b)                                 | Aug         |
| %H        | Hour in 24h format (00-23)                                             | 14          |
| %I        | Hour in 12h format (01-12)                                             | 2           |
| %j        | Day of the year (001-366)                                              | 235         |
| %m        | Month as a decimal number (01-12)                                      | 8           |
| %M        | Minute (00-59)                                                         | 55          |
| %n        | New-line character (‘n’)                                               |             |
| %p        | AM or PM designation                                                   | PM          |
| %r        | 12-hour clock time \*                                                  | 02:55:02 pm |
| %R        | 24-hour HH:MM time, equivalent to %H:%M                                | 14:55       |
| %S        | Second (00-61)                                                         | 2           |
| %t        | Horizontal-tab character (‘t’)                                         |             |
| %T        | ISO 8601 time format (HH:MM:SS), equivalent to %H:%M:%S                | 14:55:02    |
| %u        | ISO 8601 weekday as number with Monday as 1 (1-7)                      | 4           |
| %U        | Week number with the first Sunday as the first day of week one (00-53) | 33          |
| %V        | ISO 8601 week number (00-53)                                           | 34          |
| %w        | Weekday as a decimal number with Sunday as 0 (0-6)                     | 4           |
| %W        | Week number with the first Monday as the first day of week one (00-53) | 34          |
| %x        | Date representation \*                                                 | 08/23/01    |
| %X        | Time representation \*                                                 | 14:55:02    |
| %y        | Year, last two digits (00-99)                                          | 1           |
| %Y        | Year                                                                   | 2001        |
| %z        | ISO 8601 offset from UTC in timezone (1 minute=1, 1 hour=100)          | 100         |
| %Z        | Timezone name or abbreviation                                          | CDT         |
| %%        | A % sign                                                               | %           |

Adopted from <http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/strftime/>.