View Source Timex.Format.DateTime.Formatters.Strftime (timex v3.7.11)

Date formatting language defined by the strftime function from the Standard C Library.

This implementation in Elixir is mostly compatible with strftime. The exception is the absence of locale-depended results. All directives that imply textual result will produce English names and abbreviations.

A complete reference of the directives implemented here is given below.

directive-format

Directive format

A directive is marked by the percent sign (%) followed by one character (<directive>). In addition, a few optional specifiers can be inserted in-between:

%<flag><width><modifier><directive>

Supported flags:

  • - - don't pad numerical results (overrides default padding if any)
  • 0 - use zeros for padding
  • _ - use spaces for padding
  • :, :: - used only in combination with %z; see description of %:z
            and `%::z` below

<width> is a non-negative decimal number specifying the minimum field width.

<modifier> can be E or O. These are locale-sensitive modifiers, and as such they are currently ignored by this implementation.

list-of-all-directives

List of all directives

  • %% - produces a single % in the output

years-and-centuries

Years and centuries

  • %Y - full year number (0..9999)
  • %y - the last two digits of the year number (0..99)
  • %C - century number (00..99)
  • %G - year number corresponding to the date's ISO week (0..9999)
  • %g - year number (2 digits) corresponding to the date's ISO week (0..99)

months

Months

  • %m - month number (1..12)
  • %b - abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec, no padding)
  • %h - same is %b
  • %B - full month name (January..December, no padding)

days-and-days-of-week

Days, and days of week

  • %d - day number (1..31)
  • %e - same as %d, but padded with spaces ( 1..31)
  • %j - ordinal day of the year (001..366)
  • %u - weekday, Monday first (1..7)
  • %w - weekday, Sunday first (0..6)
  • %a - abbreviated weekday name (Mon..Sun, no padding)
  • %A - full weekday name (Monday..Sunday, no padding)

weeks

Weeks

  • %V - ISO week number (01..53)
  • %W - week number of the year, Monday first (00..52)
  • %U - week number of the year, Sunday first (00..52)

time

Time

  • %H - hour of the day (00..23)
  • %k - same as %H, but padded with spaces ( 0..23)
  • %I - hour of the day (1..12)
  • %l - same as %I, but padded with spaces ( 1..12)
  • %M - minutes of the hour (00..59)
  • %S - seconds of the minute (00..60)
  • %f - microseconds in zero padded decimal form, i.e. 025000
  • %L - milliseconds (000..999)
  • %s - number of seconds since UNIX epoch
  • %P - lowercase am or pm (no padding)
  • %p - uppercase AM or PM (no padding)

time-zones

Time zones

  • %Z - time zone name, e.g. UTC (no padding)
  • %z - time zone offset in the form +0230 (no padding)
  • %:z - time zone offset in the form -07:30 (no padding)
  • %::z - time zone offset in the form -07:30:00 (no padding)

compound-directives

Compound directives

  • %D - same as %m/%d/%y
  • %F - same as %Y-%m-%d
  • %R - same as %H:%M
  • %r - same as %I:%M:%S %p
  • %T - same as %H:%M:%S
  • %v - same as %e-%b-%Y

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format!(date, format_string)

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Callback implementation for Timex.Format.DateTime.Formatter.format!/2.

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format(date, format_string)

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Callback implementation for Timex.Format.DateTime.Formatter.format/2.

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lformat!(date, format_string, locale)

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Callback implementation for Timex.Format.DateTime.Formatter.lformat!/3.

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lformat(date, format_string, locale)

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@spec lformat(Timex.Types.calendar_types(), String.t(), String.t()) ::
  {:ok, String.t()} | {:error, term()}

Callback implementation for Timex.Format.DateTime.Formatter.lformat/3.

@spec tokenize(String.t()) ::
  {:ok, [Timex.Parse.DateTime.Tokenizers.Directive.t()]} | {:error, term()}

Callback implementation for Timex.Format.DateTime.Formatter.tokenize/1.