But back to our example. I think it's kind of boring. Sure, it works, but it also looks like a format that an HTTPd header field might use. Let's change it by adding a lin
e like this:
<!--#config timefmt="%A, %B %d, %Y"-->
Which should look like this:
Wednesday, October 29, 1997
In this example, %A is replaced with the day of the week, %B is replaced with the month, %d is replaced with the day of the month, and %Y is replaced with the year. The list of possible substitutions is usually displ
ayed on the Unix main page for date or time. Here is a short list of some of the standards and their current values, but different operating systems might offer slightly different sets.
%% - %
%a - Wed: Day of the week abbreviation
%A - Wednesday: Full name of day of the week
%w - 3: Number of day of the week; Sunday is day 0 (0-6)
%b - Oct: Month abbreviation
%B - October: Full name of month
%d - 29: The day of the month (01-31)
%e - 29: The day of the month (1-31)
%H - 19: Hour of day (00-23)
%I - 07: Hour of day (01-12)
%j - 302: Day in the year (001-366)
%M - 37: Minute (00-59)
%p - PM: AM or PM
%S - 44: Second (00-61); watch your leap seconds
%y - 97: Last two digits of the year (00-99)
%Y - 1997: The year
%Z - PST: The time zone
If you reload this page a few times, you will see the seconds change in this list (and increase our hits. Yay.).
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