Time and date formatting
| Format | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| d | Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros | 01 to 31 |
| D | A short textual representation of the day of the week | Mon to Sun |
| j | Day of the month without leading zeros | 1 to 31 |
| l | A full textual representation of the day of the week | Sunday to Saturday |
| N | ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week | 1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday) |
| S | English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters. Works well with j | st, nd, rd or th |
| w | Numeric representation of the day of the week | 0 (for Sunday) to 6 (for Saturday) |
| z | The day of the year (starting from 0) | 0 to 364 (365 in leap years) |
| W | ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday | 01 to 53 |
| F | A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March | January to December |
| m | Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros | 01 to 12 |
| M | A short textual representation of a month | Jan to Dec |
| n | Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros | 1 to 12 |
| t | Number of days in the given month | 28 to 31 |
| L | Whether it's a leap year | 1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise. |
| o | ISO-8601 year number (identical to (Y), but if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead) | Examples: 1998 or 2004 |
| Y | A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits | Examples: 1999 or 2003 |
| y | A two digit representation of a year | Examples: 99 or 03 |
| a | Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | am or pm |
| A | Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | AM or PM |
| g | 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 1 to 12 |
| G | 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 0 to 23 |
| h | 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 01 to 12 |
| H | 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 00 to 23 |
| i | Minutes, with leading zeros | 00 to 59 |
| s | Seconds, with leading zeros | 00 to 59 |
| u | Decimal fraction of a second | Examples:
(minimum 1 digit, arbitrary number of digits allowed) 001 (i.e. 0.001s) or 100 (i.e. 0.100s) or 999 (i.e. 0.999s) or 999876543210 (i.e. 0.999876543210s) |
| O | Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours and minutes | Example: +1030 |
| P | Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes | Example: -08:00 |
| T | Timezone abbreviation of the machine running the code | Examples: EST, MDT, PDT ... |
| Z | Timezone offset in seconds (negative if west of UTC, positive if east) | -43200 to 50400 |
| c | ISO 8601 date represented as the local time with an offset to UTC appended.
Notes: 1) If unspecified, the month / day defaults to the current month / day, the time defaults to midnight, while the timezone defaults to the browser's timezone. If a time is specified, it must include both hours and minutes. The "T" delimiter, seconds, milliseconds and timezone are optional. 2) The decimal fraction of a second, if specified, must contain at least 1 digit (there is no limit to the maximum number of digits allowed), and may be delimited by either a '.' or a ',' Refer to the examples on the right for the various levels of date-time granularity which are supported, or see http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime for more info. |
Examples:
1991 or 1992-10 or 1993-09-20 or 1994-08-19T16:20+01:00 or 1995-07-18T17:21:28-02:00 or 1996-06-17T18:22:29.98765+03:00 or 1997-05-16T19:23:30,12345-0400 or 1998-04-15T20:24:31.2468Z or 1999-03-14T20:24:32Z or 2000-02-13T21:25:33 2001-01-12 22:26:34 |
| C | An ISO date string as implemented by the native Date object's
[Date.toISOString](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toISOString) method. This outputs the numeric part with *UTC* hour and minute values, and indicates this by appending the `'Z'` timezone identifier. |
1962-06-17T09:21:34.125Z |
| U | Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) | 1193432466 or -2138434463 |
| MS | Microsoft AJAX serialized dates | \/Date(1238606590509)\/ (i.e. UTC milliseconds since epoch) or \/Date(1238606590509+0800)\/ |
| time | A javascript millisecond timestamp | 1350024476440 |
| timestamp | A UNIX timestamp (same as U) | 1350024866 |
