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Timefmt()

timefmt(<format>, <time>)

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Returns <time> as a formatted string as described in <format>. <time> is in the format of seconds, typically seconds since Unix Epoch. <format> contains one or more letters describing the format of the string to be returned. timefmt() is frequently used with xtime() to format the current date and time, but it can be used with anything that generates a value in seconds.

Format Characters

Character	Returns	Sample
I	?? DST flag??	0
n	Month (numeric)	2
m	Month (numeric, 2 digit)	02
G	Hour (12 hour)	5
H	Hour (12 hour, 2 digit)	05
w	Day of the week (numeric)	6
y	Year (short)	17
h	Hour (24 hour)	17
g	Hour (24 hour, 2 digit?)	17
d	Day of the month	18
e	Day of the month (2 digit?)	18
s	Seconds	32
i	Minutes	39
j	Day of the year	49
Y	Year (long)	2017
u	?? Large number	273668
x	Seconds since Epoch	1487458243
M	Month (short)	Feb
F	Month (long)	February
p	am/pm (lowercase)	pm
P	am/pm (uppercase)	PM
D	Day of the week (short)	Sat
W	Day of the week (long)	Saturday
S	DoM suffex	th

Example:

  [timefmt({W, F n, Y},xtime())]   => 'Saturday, February 2, 2017'

See also: xtime(), time(), tma(), tmf(), tml(), tms()

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-- SluggyQBFreak - 18 Feb 2017