Date-time formatting
Description of date-time formatting in Quadratic.
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Description of date-time formatting in Quadratic.
Last updated
In Quadratic you can use either preset date-time options or use custom date-time options.
Date-time presets include the standard formats you'd expect for both date and time.
A very wide range of custom formatting is supported in Quadratic. The table below reflects all available options for custom formatting.
%Y
2001
Gregorian year padded to 4 digits. Support from -262144 to 262143.
%C
20
Gregorian year divided by 100, zero-padded to 2 digits.
%y
01
Gregorian year modulo 100, zero-padded to 2 digits.
%m
07
Month number (01-12), zero-padded to 2 digits.
%b
Jul
Abbreviated month name. Always 3 letters.
%B
July
Full month name.
%h
Jul
Same as %b
%d
08
Day number 01-31, zero padded to 2 digits.
%e
8
Same as %d but padded.
%a
Sun
Abbreviated weekday name.
%A
Sunday
Full weekday name.
%w
0
Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, etc.
%u
7
Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, etc.
%U
28
Week number 00-53, zero padded to 2 digits. Week starting with Sunday.
%W
27
Same as %U, but week 1 starts with Monday instead of Sunday.
%G
2001
Same as %Y but ISO 8601 year number.
%g
01
Same %y but year number in ISO 8601
%V
27
Same as %U but uses the week number in ISO 8601 week date (01-53).
%j
189
Day of the year 001-366, zero padded to 3 digits.
%D
07/08/01
Month/day/year format. Same as %m/%d/%y.
%x
07/08/01
Same as %D except locale date representation.
%F
2001-07-08
Year-month-day format in ISO 8601. Same as %Y-%m-%d.
%v
8-Jul-2001
Day-month-year, same as %e-%b-%Y.
%H
00
Hour number 00-23, zero padded to 2 digits.
%k
0
Same as %H but space padded. Same as %_H.
%I (aye)
12
Hour number in 12 hour clocks 01-12, zero-padded to 2 digits.
%l (el)
12
Same as %I (aye), but space-padded, same as %_I (aye).
%P
am
am or pm in 12-hour clock
%p
AM
AM or PM in 12-hour clocks
%M
34
Minute number 00-59, zero padded to 2 digits.
%S
60
Second number 00-60, zero-padded to 2 digits.
%f
26490000
Number of nanoseconds since last whole second.
%.f
.026490
Decimal fraction of a second.
%.3f
.026
Decimal fraction of a second with a fixed length of 3.
%.6f
.026490
Decimal fraction of a second with a fixed length of 6.
%.9f
.026490000
Decimal fraction of a second with a fixed length of 9.
%3f
026
Decimal fraction of a second like %.3f but without the leading dot.
%6f
026490
Decimal fraction of a second like %.6f but without the leading dot.
%9f
026490000
Decimal fraction of a second like %.9f but without the leading dot.
%R
00:34
Hour-minute format. Same as %H:%M.
%T
00:34:60
Hour-minute-second format. Same as %H:%M:%S.
%X
00:34:60
Locale’s time representation (e.g., 23:13:48).
%r
12:34:60 AM
Locale’s 12 hour clock time. (e.g., 11:11:04 PM). Falls back to %X if the locale does not have a 12 hour clock format.
%Z
ACST
Local time zone name. Skips all non-whitespace characters during parsing. Identical to %:z when formatting.
%z
+0930
Offset from the local time to UTC (with UTC being +0000).
%:z
+09:30
Same as %z but with a colon.
%::z
+09:30:00
Offset from the local time to UTC with seconds.
%:::z
+09
Offset from the local time to UTC without minutes.
%#z
+09
Parsing only: Same as %z but allows minutes to be missing or present.
%c
Sun Jul 8 00:34:60 2001
Locale’s date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005).
%+
2001-07-08T00:34:60.026490+09:30
ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 date & time format.
%s
994518299
UNIX timestamp, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC.
%t
Literal tab (\t).
%n
Literal newline (\n).
%%
Literal percent sign.
%-?
Suppresses any padding including spaces and zeroes. (e.g. %j = 012, %-j = 12)
%_?
Uses spaces as a padding. (e.g. %j = 012, %_j = 12)
%0?
Uses zeroes as a padding. (e.g. %e = 9, %0e = 09)
