Several Macros including the Today Macro take a Date Format String as an optional argument. This string can be a combination of ordinary text, with some special characters that get substituted by parts of the date:
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DDD- day of week in full (eg, "Monday") -
ddd- short day of week (eg, "Mon") -
DD- day of month -
0DD- adds a leading zero -
DDth- adds a suffix -
WW- ISO-8601 week number of year -
0WW- adds a leading zero -
MMM- month in full (eg, "July") -
mmm- short month (eg, "Jul") -
MM- month number -
0MM- adds leading zero -
YYYY- full year -
YY- two digit year -
wYYYY- full year with respect to week number -
wYYtwo digit year with respect to week number -
hh- hours -
0hh- adds a leading zero -
hh12- hours in 12 hour clock -
0hh12- hours in 12 hour clock with leading zero -
mm- minutes -
0mm- minutes with leading zero -
ss- seconds -
0ss- seconds with leading zero -
amorpm- lower case AM/PM indicator -
AMorPM- upper case AM/PM indicator
Examples
DDth MMM YYYY - 16th February 2011DDth mmm hh:mm:ss - 16th Feb 2011 11:38:42