POSIX-defined Format Specifiers for strftime

The following table describes the POSIX-defined specifiers for the format string used with strftime.

Note: You must define __USELOCALES__ in order to use these descriptors.

Format Specifier

Substitution

%C

%D

%e

%h

%n

%r

%t

%T

%u

Century as a decimal number (00 - 99). For example, 1992 => 19

Date in the format mm/dd/yy

Day of the month as a decimal number in a two-digit field with leading space (1 -31)

A synonym for %b

Newline character

12-hour time (01 - 12) format with am/pm string i.e. "%I:%M:%S %p"

Tab character

24-hour time (00 - 23) in the format "HH:MM:SS"

Weekday as a decimal number (1 Monday - 7 Sunday)

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