<date/>

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Inserts the time and date. Does not require attributes.

Attributes

unix-time="number of seconds"

Display this time instead of the current. The time is taken as a unix timestamp (i.e. the number of seconds since 00:00:00 Jan 1 1970 UTC).

<date unix-time='946684800'/>

01:00, January the 1st, 2000

http-time="http time stamp"

Display this time instead of the current. This attribute uses the specified http-time, instead of the current time.

All three http-time formats are supported:

<p>RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123: <date http-time='Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT'/></p> <p>RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036: <date http-time='Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT' /></p> <p>ANSI C's asctime() format: <date http-time='Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994' /></p>

RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123: 09:49, November the 6th, 1994 RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036: 09:49, November the 6th, 1994 ANSI C's asctime() format: 08:49, November the 6th, 1994

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.

to-timezone="{local, GMT, Europe/Stockholm, ...}" (local)

Display the time in another timezone.

years="number"

Add this number of years to the result.

<date date='' years='2'/>

September the 1st in the year of 2017

months="number"

Add this number of months to the result.

<date date='' months='2'/>

November the 1st in the year of 2015

weeks="number"

Add this number of weeks to the result.

<date date='' weeks='2'/>

September the 15th in the year of 2015

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'/>

19:44:40

beats="number"

Add this number of beats to the result.

<date time='' beats='10' type='iso'/>

17:59:04

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, 17:44

time

Show only time.

<date time=''/>

17:44

date

Show only date.

<date date=''/>

September the 1st in the year of 2015

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

Defines in which format the date should be displayed in.

The following types are only useful together with the "part" attribute:

type=number	<date part='day' type='number'/> 3
type=ordered	<date part='day' type='ordered'/> 3rd
type=string	<date part='day' type='string'/> Tuesday

The following types are only useful without the "part" attribute:

type=discordian	<date type='discordian'/><br/> <date type='discordian' year='' holiday=''/> Prickle-Prickle, the 25th day of Bureaucracy Prickle-Prickle, the 25th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD of 3181
type=http	<date type='http'/> Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:44:40 GMT
type=iso	<date type='iso' time=''/><br/> <date type='iso' date=''/><br/> <date type='iso'/> 17:44:40 2015-09-01 2015-09-01T17:44:40
type=stardate	<date type='stardate' prec='5'/> 42246.60014
type=unix	<date type='unix'/> 1441122280

'http' is the format specified for use in the HTTP protocol (useful for headers etc).

'stardate' has a separate companion attribute "prec" which sets the precision.

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.

Part	Meaning
year	Display the year. <date part='year' type='number'/> 2015
month	Display the month. <date part='month' type='ordered'/> 9th
day	Display the weekday, starting with Sunday. <date part='day' type='ordered'/> 3rd
wday	Display the weekday. Same as 'day'. <date part='wday' type='string'/> Tuesday
date	Display the day of this month. <date part='date' type='ordered'/> 1st
mday	Display the number of days since the last full month. <date part='mday' type='number'/> 1
hour	Display the numbers of hours since midnight. <date part='hour' type='ordered'/> 17th
minute	Display the numbers of minutes since the last full hour. <date part='minute' type='number'/> 44
second	Display the numbers of seconds since the last full minute. <date part='second' type='string'/> forty
yday	Display the number of days since the first of January. <date part='yday' type='ordered'/> 243rd
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'/> @697
week	Display the number of the current week. <date part='week' type='number'/> 36
seconds	Display the total number of seconds this year. <date part='seconds' type='number'/> 1441122280

strftime="string"

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

The ! modifier can be inserted to get rid of extra field padding in any of the formatters below. For instance, use %!m to get the month value without zero padding. The E modifier accessses alternative forms of month names, e.g. %EB which in Russian locale gives a genitive form.

Format	Meaning
%%	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."
%P	"am" or "pm"
%r	Time in 12 hour clock format with %p
%R	Time as "%H:%M"
%S	Seconds (0-60), zero padded to two characters. 60 only occurs in case of a leap second.
%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"/>

September 1 2015, Tuesday 17:44:40

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'/>

Dienstag

case="{upper, lower, capitalize}"

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

<date date='' lang='&client.language;' case='upper'/>

SEPTEMBER THE 1ST IN THE YEAR OF 2015

prec="number"

The number of decimals in the stardate.