Here is a list of all the date formats available for formatting.
Format Description Example returned values
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d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros 01 to 31
D A short textual representation of the day of the week Mon to Sun
j Day of the month without leading zeros 1 to 31
l A full textual representation of the day of the week Sunday to Saturday
N ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week 1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday)
S English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j
w Numeric representation of the day of the week 0 (for Sunday) to 6 (for Saturday)
z The day of the year (starting from 0) 0 to 364 (365 in leap years)
W ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday 01 to 53
F A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March January to December
m Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros 01 to 12
M A short textual representation of a month Jan to Dec
n Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros 1 to 12
t Number of days in the given month 28 to 31
L Whether it's a leap year 1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise.
o ISO-8601 year number (identical to (Y), but if the ISO week number (W) Examples: 1998 or 2004
belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead)
Y A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits Examples: 1999 or 2003
y A two digit representation of a year Examples: 99 or 03
a Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem am or pm
A Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem AM or PM
g 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 1 to 12
G 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 0 to 23
h 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 01 to 12
H 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 00 to 23
i Minutes, with leading zeros 00 to 59
s Seconds, with leading zeros 00 to 59
u Decimal fraction of a second Examples:
(minimum 1 digit, arbitrary number of digits allowed) 001 (i.e. 0.001s) or
100 (i.e. 0.100s) or
999 (i.e. 0.999s) or
999876543210 (i.e. 0.999876543210s)
O Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours and minutes Example: +1030
P Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes Example: -08:00
T Timezone abbreviation of the machine running the code Examples: EST, MDT, PDT ...
Z Timezone offset in seconds (negative if west of UTC, positive if east) -43200 to 50400
c ISO 8601 date
Notes: Examples:
1) If unspecified, the month / day defaults to the current month / day, 1991 or
the time defaults to midnight, while the timezone defaults to the 1992-10 or
browser's timezone. If a time is specified, it must include both hours 1993-09-20 or
and minutes. The "T" delimiter, seconds, milliseconds and timezone 1994-08-19T16:20+01:00 or
are optional. 1995-07-18T17:21:28-02:00 or
2) The decimal fraction of a second, if specified, must contain at 1996-06-17T18:22:29.98765+03:00 or
least 1 digit (there is no limit to the maximum number 1997-05-16T19:23:30,12345-0400 or
of digits allowed), and may be delimited by either a '.' or a ',' 1998-04-15T20:24:31.2468Z or
Refer to the examples on the right for the various levels of 1999-03-14T20:24:32Z or
date-time granularity which are supported, or see 2000-02-13T21:25:33
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime for more info. 2001-01-12 22:26:34
U Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT) 1193432466 or -2138434463
MS Microsoft AJAX serialized dates \/Date(1238606590509)\/ (i.e. UTC milliseconds since epoch) or
\/Date(1238606590509+0800)\/
