Format specifiers

strftime has several format specifiers defined by the Open group at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html

PHP added a few of its own, defined at http://www.php.net/strftime

This javascript implementation supports all the PHP specifiers

Supported format specifiers:

List of supported format specifiers.

%a - abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale
%A - full weekday name according to the current locale
%b - abbreviated month name according to the current locale
%B - full month name according to the current locale
%c - preferred date and time representation for the current locale
%C - century number (the year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer, range 00 to 99)
%d - day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31)
%D - same as m/d/y
%e - day of the month as a decimal number, a single digit is preceded by a space (range ' 1' to '31')
%g - like G, but without the century
%G - The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number
%h - same as b
%H - hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23)
%I - hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12)
%j - day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366)
%m - month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12)
%M - minute as a decimal number
%n - newline character
%p - either `AM' or `PM' according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale
%P - like p, but lower case
%r - time in a.m. and p.m. notation equal to I:M:S p
%R - time in 24 hour notation equal to H:M
%S - second as a decimal number
%t - tab character
%T - current time, equal to H:M:S
%u - weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday
%U - week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
%V - The ISO 8601:1988 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 current year, and with Monday as the first day of the week.
%w - day of the week as a decimal, Sunday being 0
%W - week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
%x - preferred date representation for the current locale without the time
%X - preferred time representation for the current locale without the date
%y - year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99)
%Y - year as a decimal number including the century
%z - numerical time zone representation
%Z - time zone name or abbreviation
%% - a literal `%' character

Unsupported format specifiers:

List of unsupported format specifiers.

All format specifiers supported by the PHP implementation are supported by this javascript implementation.