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in reply to strftime reference for Win32

holli++ - very useful

For the sake of completeness, here's sample output: 

a: Day of Week    (short, text) Thu
A: Day of Week     (long, text) Thursday
b: Monthname      (short, text) Feb
B: Monthname       (long, text) February
c: Full datetime (number, long) 02/24/2005 12:53:26 PM
d: Day                 (number) 24
H: Hour (24 hour)      (number) 12
I: Hour (12 hour)      (number) 12
j: Day of year         (number) 055
m: Month               (number) 02
M: Minutes             (number) 53
p: am/pm/empty           (text) PM
S: Seconds             (number) 26
U: Week of Year        (number) 08
w: Day of week         (number) 4
W: Week of Year        (number) 08
x: date                (number) 02/24/2005
X: time                (number) 12:53:26 PM
y: year         (short, number) 05
Y: year          (long, number) 2005
Z: timezone              (text) Pacific Standard Time

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Update: This is a Win2K system, Locale set to English(US)

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Re^2: strftime reference
by holli (Abbot) on Feb 24, 2005 at 18:44 UTC
    Yes, I did not think of that. Here is the output for a german system. 
    a: Day of Week    (short, text) Do
A: Day of Week     (long, text) Donnerstag
b: Monthname      (short, text) Feb
B: Monthname       (long, text) Februar
c: Full datetime (number, long) 24.02.2005 19:42:04
d: Day                 (number) 24
H: Hour (24 hour)      (number) 19
I: Hour (12 hour)      (number) 07
j: Day of year         (number) 055
m: Month               (number) 02
M: Minutes             (number) 42
p: am/pm/empty
S: Seconds             (number) 04
U: Week of Year        (number) 08
w: Day of week         (number) 4
W: Week of Year        (number) 08
x: date                (number) 24.02.2005
X: time                (number) 19:42:04
y: year         (short, number) 05
Y: year          (long, number) 2005
Z: timezone              (text) Westeuropäische Normalzeit

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    As one can see, %p is empty here, because the locale is set to 24 hours. %x, %X and %c are different too.


    holli, /regexed monk/
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Re^2: strftime reference
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 26, 2010 at 02:20 UTC
    Check out http://strfti.me for a very readable online reference and sandbox where you can experiment with different strftime format strings.
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