Formatting Dates
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 | Month of the year without leading zeroes (1..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 |
| <w:date format="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT" /> | Friday, 04 July 2022 13:32 GMT (RFC1123 format) |
In addition, a special format is available for display the time in text as a distance from the current time, such as "3 hours, 12 minutes ago". The format specification for this is "time_ago", as in:
<w:date format="time_ago" />
If you wish to show the current date and time (of when the page was last cached), simply add for="now":
<w:date format="%Y" for="now" />
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