| a | ‘am’ or ‘pm’ (lowercase) | pm |
| A | ‘AM’ or ‘PM’ (uppercase) | PM |
| d | Day of month, a number with leading zeroes | 20 |
| D | Day of week (three letters) | Thu |
| F | Month name | January |
| h | Hour (12-hour format – leading zeroes) | 12 |
| H | Hour (24-hour format – leading zeroes) | 22 |
| g | Hour (12-hour format – no leading zeroes) | 12 |
| G | Hour (24-hour format – no leading zeroes) | 22 |
| i | Minutes ( 0 – 59 ) | 23 |
| j | Day of the month (no leading zeroes | 20 |
| l (Lowercase ‘L’) | Day of the week | Thursday |
| L | Leap year (‘1’ for yes, ‘0’ for no) | 1 |
| m | Month of year (number – leading zeroes) | 1 |
| M | Month of year (three letters) | Jan |
| r | The RFC 2822 formatted date | Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200 |
| n | Month of year (number – no leading zeroes) | 2 |
| s | Seconds of hour | 20 |
| U | Time stamp | 948372444 |
| y | Year (two digits) | 06 |
| Y | Year (four digits) | 2006 |
| z | Day of year (0 – 365) | 206 |
| Z | Offset in seconds from GMT | +5 |
