5.3.35. Date

Purpose:

Prints the current date according to format or only a date attribute.

Syntax:

Date <date_attribute>|<date_format>

where

The attributes have the following meanings:

• year: year as number

• mon_nr: month as number

• mday: day of the month (number)

• yday: day of the year (number)

• wday_nr: day of the week (number)

• hour: hour (0-23)

• min: minute

• sec: second

• mon_name: name of the month (in the language set to the data context)

• wday_name: name of the day of the week (in language set to the data context)

<date_format> may contain any printable character except ", tab and >. If the date format contains separators (space, end of line) it must be enclosed in "" characters. The following groups of characters have special meaning:

• %M - month name

• %W - weekday name

• %Y - year (4 digits)

• %y - year (2 digits)

• %m - month (01..12)

• %c - month (1..12)

• %d - day of the month (00..31)

• %e - day of the month (0..31)

• %j - day of the year (001..366)

• %D - day of the month with English suffix (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.)

Constraints:

None.

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5.3.35. Date

china media project  
Wednesday 07th of December 2005 06:04:00 AM

To print the american date format from the article field 'published' use the following line:

<!** print article published "%Y-%c-%e">

which prints for example: 2005-7-23

to use leading zeros, use the following format:

<!** print article published "%Y-%m-%d">

this prints for example: 2005-07-23

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