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<date/>

Provided by module: Tags: RXML 2 tags

Inserts the time and date. Does not require attributes.


<date/>
11:41, January the 16th, 2003

Attributes

unix-time="number of seconds"

Display this time instead of the current. This attribute uses the specified Unix 'time_t' time as the starting time (which is 01:00, January the 1st, 1970), instead of the current time. This is mostly useful when the <date> tag is used from a Pike-script or Roxen module.


<date unix-time='120'/>
01:02, January the 1st, 1970

iso-time="{yyyy-mm-dd, yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm, yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss}"

Display this time instead of the current. This attribute uses the specified ISO 8601 time as the starting time, instead of the current time. The character between the date and the time can be either " " (space) or "T" (the letter T).


<date iso-time='2002-09-03 16:06'/>
16:06, September the 3rd, 2002

timezone="{local, GMT}" (local)

Display the time from another timezone.


years="number"

Add this number of years to the result.


<date date='' years='2'/>
January the 16th in the year of 2005

months="number"

Add this number of months to the result.


<date date='' months='2'/>
March the 16th in the year of 2003

weeks="number"

Add this number of weeks to the result.


<date date='' weeks='2'/>
January the 30th in the year of 2003

days="number"

Add this number of days to the result.


hours="number"

Add this number of hours to the result.


<date time='' hours='2' type='iso'/>
13:41:10

beats="number"

Add this number of beats to the result.


<date time='' beats='10' type='iso'/>
11:55:34

minutes="number"

Add this number of minutes to the result.


seconds="number"

Add this number of seconds to the result.


adjust="number"

Add this number of seconds to the result.


brief

Show in brief format.


<date brief=''/>
today, 11:41

time

Show only time.


<date time=''/>
11:41

date

Show only date.


<date date=''/>
January the 16th in the year of 2003

type="{string, ordered, iso, discordian, stardate, number, unix}"

Defines in which format the date should be displayed in. Discordian and stardate only make a difference when not using part. Note that type='stardate' has a separate companion attribute, prec, which sets the precision.

type=discordian


<date date='' type='discordian'/>
Sweetmorn, the 15th day of Chaos

type=iso


<date date='' type='iso'/>
2003-01-16

type=number


<date date='' type='number'/>
January the 16th in the year of 2003

type=ordered


<date date='' type='ordered'/>
January the 16th in the year of 2003

type=stardate


<date date='' type='stardate'/>
37635.8

type=string


<date date='' type='string'/>
January the 16th in the year of 2003

type=unix


<date date='' type='unix'/>
1042713670

part="{year, month, day, wday, date, mday, hour, minute, second, yday, beat, week, seconds}"

Defines which part of the date should be displayed. Day and wday is the same. Date and mday is the same. Yday is the day number of the year. Seconds is unix time type. Only the types string, number and ordered applies when the part attribute is used.

PartMeaning

year

Display the year.


<date part='year' type='number'/>
2003

month

Display the month.


<date part='month' type='ordered'/>
1st

day

Display the weekday, starting with Sunday.


<date part='day' type='ordered'/>
5th

wday

Display the weekday. Same as 'day'.


<date part='wday' type='string'/>
Thursday

date

Display the day of this month.


<date part='date' type='ordered'/>
16th

mday

Display the number of days since the last full month.


<date part='mday' type='number'/>
16

hour

Display the numbers of hours since midnight.


<date part='hour' type='ordered'/>
11th

minute

Display the numbers of minutes since the last full hour.


<date part='minute' type='number'/>
41

second

Display the numbers of seconds since the last full minute.


<date part='second' type='string'/>
ten

yday

Display the number of days since the first of January.


<date part='yday' type='ordered'/>
15th

beat

Display the number of beats since midnight Central European Time(CET). There is a total of 1000 beats per day. The beats system was designed by Swatch as a means for a universal time, without time zones and day/night changes.


<date part='beat' type='number'/>
@486

week

Display the number of the current week.


<date part='week' type='number'/>
3

seconds

Display the total number of seconds this year.


<date part='seconds' type='number'/>
1042713670

strftime="string"

If this attribute is given to date, it will format the result according to the argument string.

FormatMeaning

%%

Percent character

%a

Abbreviated weekday name, e.g. "Mon"

%A

Weekday name

%b

Abbreviated month name, e.g. "Jan"

%B

Month name

%c

Date and time, e.g. "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"

%C

Century number, zero padded to two charachters.

%d

Day of month (1-31), zero padded to two characters.

%D

Date as "%m/%d/%y"

%e

Day of month (1-31), space padded to two characters.

%H

Hour (24 hour clock, 0-23), zero padded to two characters.

%h

See %b

%I

Hour (12 hour clock, 1-12), zero padded to two charcters.

%j

Day numer of year (1-366), zero padded to three characters.

%k

Hour (24 hour clock, 0-23), space padded to two characters.

%l

Hour (12 hour clock, 1-12), space padded to two characters.

%m

Month number (1-12), zero padded to two characters.

%M

Minute (0-59), zero padded to two characters.

%n

Newline

%p

"a.m." or "p.m."

%r

Time in 12 hour clock format with %p

%R

Time as "%H:%M"

%S

Seconds (0-61), zero padded to two characters.

%t

Tab

%T

Time as "%H:%M:%S"

%u

Weekday as a decimal number (1-7), 1 is Sunday.

%U

Week number of year as a decimal number (0-53), with sunday as the first day of week 1, zero padded to two characters.

%V

ISO week number of the year as a decimal number (1-53), zero padded to two characters.

%w

Weekday as a decimal number (0-6), 0 is Sunday.

%W

Week number of year as a decimal number (0-53), with sunday as the first day of week 1, zero padded to two characters.

%x

Date as "%a %b %d %Y"

%X

See %T

%y

Year (0-99), zero padded to two characters.

%Y

Year (0-9999), zero padded to four characters.


<date strftime="%B %e %Y, %A %T"/>
January 16 2003, Thursday 11:41:10

lang="langcode"

Defines in what language a string will be presented in. Used together with type=string and the part attribute to get written dates in the specified language.


<date part='day' type='string' lang='de'/>
Donnerstag

case="{upper, lower, capitalize}"

Changes the case of the output to upper, lower or capitalize.


<date date='' lang='&client.language;' case='upper'/>
JANUARY THE 16TH IN THE YEAR OF 2003

prec="number"

The number of decimals in the stardate.