Webvanta stores dates and time in a format-independent representation, and you can choose the format when you display it. The format string uses the "strftime" format that has been used in many languages.

Webvanta stores dates and time in a format-independent representation, and you can choose the format when you display it.

The format string uses the "strftime" format that has been used in many languages. These are the options:

%a	The abbreviated weekday name ("Sun")
%A	The full weekday name ("Sunday")
%b	The abbreviated month name ("Jan")
%B	The full month name ("January")
%c	The preferred local date and time representation
%d	Day of the month (01..31)
%e	Day of the month without leading zeroes (1..31)
%H	Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)
%I	Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)
%j	Day of the year (001..366)
%k	Hour of the day, 24-hour clock w/o leading zeroes ( 0..23)
%l	Hour of the day, 12-hour clock w/o leading zeroes ( 1..12)
%m	Month of the year (01..12)
%M	Minute of the hour (00..59)
%p	Meridian indicator ("AM" or "PM")
%P	Meridian indicator ("am" or "pm")
%S	Second of the minute (00..60)
%U	Week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week (00..53)
%W	Week number of the current year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week (00..53)
%w	Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)
%y	Year without a century (00..99)
%Y	Year with century
%Z	Time zone name
%z	Time zone expressed as a UTC offset ("-04:00")
%%	Literal "%" character

Any text in the format string that is not preceded by a % symbol is rendered as ordinary text.

Here are some examples:

<w:date format="%A %B %e, %Y %l:%M %P" />	Saturday July 4, 2022 1:32 pm
<w:date format="%a %b %e '%y %k:%M" />	Sat Jul 4 '09 13:32
<w:date format="%m/%e/%Y" />	07/4/2022