The following date specifiers are supported:
## Year
| `%C` | `20` | Gregorian year divided by 100, zero-padded to 2 digits |
| `%Y` | `2012` | Gregorian year, zero-padded to 4 digits |
| `%y` | `12` | Gregorian year modulo 100, zero-padded to 2 digits |
## Month
| `%B` | December | Full English name of the month |
| `%b` or `%h` | Dec | Three-letter abbreviation for the month's English name |
| `%m` | `07` | Month number (`01`–`12`), zero-padded to 2 digits |
## Day
| `%d` | `21` | Day number (`01`–`31`), zero-padded to 2 digits |
| `%a` | `Sat` | Three-letter abbreviation for the weekday's English name |
| `%A` | `Saturday` | Full English name of the weekday |
| `%w` | `6` | Integer representing the weekday: Sunday (`0`) to Saturday (`6`) |
| `%u` | `6` | Integer representing the weekday: Monday (`1`) to Sunday (`7`) |
| `%j` | `112` | Day of the year (`001`–`366`), zero-padded to 3 digits |
## Full Date Shortcuts
| `%D` | `07/08/01` | Month-day-year format. Same as %m/%d/%y. |
| `%F` | `2001-07-08` | Year-month-day format (ISO 8601). Same as %Y-%m-%d. |
| `%v` | `8-Jul-2001` | Day-month-year format. Same as %e-%b-%Y. |