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In the field below, enter any of strftime's supported format specifiers. The whole list is available with the PHP documentation for strftime. The result will be the current date using that format printed out in English, French and German.

Examples

Natural language:: %A, %d %B
ISO 8601:: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z
YYYY/mm/dd:: %Y/%m/%d
Preferred:: %c, %x, %r

Background:

strftime in Javascript

As a follow-up to my last post about Javascript date functions, I went ahead and implemented strftime for javascript.

Have a look at the demo at the link above, and download the code: strftime.js. It's distributed under a BSD license, so use it and give me feedback. Post comments here for now.

The code is documented using doxygen style comments.

You should also check out Stoyan's time input library that lets you do the equivalent of php's strtotime function.

Update: This code is now part of the YUI library and all further development will be done there.

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