# About
Date/time CLI utility
*See also the [dtg-lib] crate.*
# Usage
~~~text
$ dtg -h
Date/time CLI utility
<https://crates.io/crates/dtg> / <https://github.com/qtfkwk/dtg>
---
Usage: dtg [OPTIONS] [ARG]...
Arguments:
[ARG]... Argument [-X: "x" timestamp (2), -Z: timezone, "%s.%f" timestamp,
default: now]
Options:
-l Local timezone (6)
-a "a" format (1)
-x "x" format (2)
-X Give timestamp argument(s) in "x" format (2)
-Z Search/list timezones
-f <FORMAT> Format(s) [-z/-l: "%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z",
"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"]
-z <ZONE> Timezone(s) [default: UTC] (3) (6)
-s <SEPARATOR> Separator [default: "\n"]
-n <NAME> Named format(s) [all, bcd, compact-date (%Y%m%d),
compact-date-time (%Y%m%d-%H%M%S), compact-time (%H%M%S),
default, rfc-3339, x, or any custom format] (4) (5)
-i <N> Run every N seconds
-c <N> Clear and run every N seconds
-r, --readme Print the readme
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
---
Notes:
1. "a" format:
```text
%s.%f
%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ
%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z # UTC
%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z # Specified or local timezone
```
2. "x" format (novel UTC / base 60 encoding):
```text
0* 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1* A B C D E F G H I J
2* K L M N O P Q R S T
3* U V W X Y Z a b c d
4* e f g h i j k l m n
5* o p q r s t u v w x
```
Field | Values | Result
-------|------------------|----------
Year | 2020 => 33*60+40 | Xe
Month | Jan-Dec => 0-11 | 0-B
Day | 0-27/28/29/30 | 0-R/S/T/U
Hour | 0-23 | 0-N
Minute | 0-59 | 0-x
Second | 0-59 | 0-x
3. Prints the timestamp in each format with one or more timezones using a
comma-separated string (`-z UTC,EST`).
4. The `-f`, `-a`, and `-x` options are processed *in that order* and do not
enable any reordering, however the `-n` option processes its arguments in the
order given and handles custom, "a", "x", and named formats.
5. "bcd" format: year, month, day, hour, minute, and second displayed like a
binary clock with the Braille Patterns Unicode Block and `|` separators.
6. `-l` / `-z` are ignored when processing UTC-only formats like `-n rfc-3339`.
~~~
# Examples
Get current date/time in UTC and RFC 3339 format:
```text
$ dtg
2026-03-03T15:01:36Z
```
Get current date/time in the local timezone and default format:
```text
$ dtg -l
Tue 03 Mar 2026 10:01:36 EST
```
Get current date/time in explicit timezone and default format:
```text
$ dtg -z MST
Tue 03 Mar 2026 08:01:36 MST
```
```text
$ dtg -z America/Los_Angeles
Tue 03 Mar 2026 07:01:36 PST
```
Get current date/time in UTC and specific format:
```text
$ dtg -f %A
Tuesday
```
```text
$ dtg -f %s.%f
1772550096.38336829
```
Get current date/time in local timezone and specific format:
```text
$ dtg -l -f %A
Tuesday
```
Get current date/time in explicit timezone and specific format:
```text
$ dtg -z MST -f %A
Tuesday
```
Get current date/time in "a" format:
```text
$ dtg -a
1772550096.047798060
2026-03-03T15:01:36Z
Tue 03 Mar 2026 15:01:36 UTC
Tue 03 Mar 2026 10:01:36 EST
```
Get current date/time in explicit timezone and "a" format:
```text
$ dtg -a -z MST
1772550096.052163438
2026-03-03T15:01:36Z
Tue 03 Mar 2026 15:01:36 UTC
Tue 03 Mar 2026 08:01:36 MST
```
Get current date/time in "x" format:
```text
$ dtg -x
Xk22F1a
```
Get a specific date / time in UTC and RFC 3339 format:
```text
$ dtg 1606447276.941324100
2020-11-27T03:21:16Z
```
Get a specific date/time in the local timezone and default format:
```text
$ dtg -l 1606447276.941324100
2020-11-27T03:21:16Z
```
Get a specific date/time in explicit timezone and default format:
```text
$ dtg -z MST 1606447276.941324100
Thu 26 Nov 2020 20:21:16 MST
```
```text
$ dtg -z America/Los_Angeles 1606447276.941324100
Thu 26 Nov 2020 19:21:16 PST
```
Get specific date/time in UTC and specific format:
```text
$ dtg -f %A 1606447276.941324100
Friday
```
Get specific date/time in local timezone and specific format:
```text
$ dtg -l -f %A -- 1606447276.941324100
Thursday
```
Get specific date/time in explicit timezone and specific format:
```text
$ dtg -z MST -f %A -- 1606447276.941324100
Thursday
```
Get a specific date/time in "a" format:
```text
$ dtg -a 1606447276.941324100
1606447276.941324100
2020-11-27T03:21:16Z
Fri 27 Nov 2020 03:21:16 UTC
Thu 26 Nov 2020 22:21:16 EST
```
Get a specific date/time in explicit timezone and "a" format:
```text
$ dtg -a -z MST 1606447276.941324100
1606447276.941324100
2020-11-27T03:21:16Z
Fri 27 Nov 2020 03:21:16 UTC
Thu 26 Nov 2020 20:21:16 MST
```
Get a specific date/time in "x" format:
```text
$ dtg -x 1606447276.941324100
XeAQ3LG
```
Get a specific date / time from "x" format in RFC 3339 format:
```text
$ dtg -X XeAQ3LG
2020-11-27T03:21:16Z
```
Get a specific date / time from "x" format in the local timezone and default format:
```text
$ dtg -X -l XeAQ3LG
Thu 26 Nov 2020 22:21:16 EST
```
Get a specific date / time from "x" format in explicit timezone and default format:
```text
$ dtg -X -z MST XeAQ3LG
Thu 26 Nov 2020 20:21:16 MST
```
Get a specific date / time from "x" format in specific format:
```text
$ dtg -f '%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z' -X XeAQ3LG
Fri 27 Nov 2020 03:21:16 UTC
```
Get a specific date / time from "x" format in local timezone and specific
format:
```text
$ dtg -l -f '%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z' -X XeAQ3LG
Thu 26 Nov 2020 22:21:16 EST
```
Get a specific date / time from "x" format in explicit timezone and specific
format:
```text
$ dtg -z MST -f '%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z' -X XeAQ3LG
Thu 26 Nov 2020 20:21:16 MST
```
List available time zones:
```text
$ dtg -Z
Africa/Abidjan
Africa/Accra
Africa/Addis_Ababa
Africa/Algiers
Africa/Asmara
Africa/Asmera
Africa/Bamako
Africa/Bangui
Africa/Banjul
Africa/Bissau
Africa/Blantyre
Africa/Brazzaville
Africa/Bujumbura
Africa/Cairo
Africa/Casablanca
Africa/Ceuta
Africa/Conakry
Africa/Dakar
Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Africa/Djibouti
Africa/Douala
Africa/El_Aaiun
Africa/Freetown
Africa/Gaborone
Africa/Harare
Africa/Johannesburg
Africa/Juba
Africa/Kampala
Africa/Khartoum
Africa/Kigali
Africa/Kinshasa
Africa/Lagos
Africa/Libreville
Africa/Lome
Africa/Luanda
Africa/Lubumbashi
Africa/Lusaka
Africa/Malabo
Africa/Maputo
Africa/Maseru
Africa/Mbabane
Africa/Mogadishu
Africa/Monrovia
Africa/Nairobi
Africa/Ndjamena
Africa/Niamey
Africa/Nouakchott
Africa/Ouagadougou
Africa/Porto-Novo
Africa/Sao_Tome
Africa/Timbuktu
Africa/Tripoli
Africa/Tunis
Africa/Windhoek
America/Adak
America/Anchorage
America/Anguilla
America/Antigua
America/Araguaina
America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
America/Argentina/Catamarca
America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia
America/Argentina/Cordoba
America/Argentina/Jujuy
America/Argentina/La_Rioja
America/Argentina/Mendoza
America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos
America/Argentina/Salta
America/Argentina/San_Juan
America/Argentina/San_Luis
America/Argentina/Tucuman
America/Argentina/Ushuaia
America/Aruba
America/Asuncion
America/Atikokan
America/Atka
America/Bahia
America/Bahia_Banderas
America/Barbados
America/Belem
America/Belize
America/Blanc-Sablon
America/Boa_Vista
America/Bogota
America/Boise
America/Buenos_Aires
America/Cambridge_Bay
America/Campo_Grande
America/Cancun
America/Caracas
America/Catamarca
America/Cayenne
America/Cayman
America/Chicago
America/Chihuahua
America/Ciudad_Juarez
America/Coral_Harbour
America/Cordoba
America/Costa_Rica
America/Coyhaique
America/Creston
America/Cuiaba
America/Curacao
America/Danmarkshavn
America/Dawson
America/Dawson_Creek
America/Denver
America/Detroit
America/Dominica
America/Edmonton
America/Eirunepe
America/El_Salvador
America/Ensenada
America/Fort_Nelson
America/Fort_Wayne
America/Fortaleza
America/Glace_Bay
America/Godthab
America/Goose_Bay
America/Grand_Turk
America/Grenada
America/Guadeloupe
America/Guatemala
America/Guayaquil
America/Guyana
America/Halifax
America/Havana
America/Hermosillo
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
America/Indiana/Knox
America/Indiana/Marengo
America/Indiana/Petersburg
America/Indiana/Tell_City
America/Indiana/Vevay
America/Indiana/Vincennes
America/Indiana/Winamac
America/Indianapolis
America/Inuvik
America/Iqaluit
America/Jamaica
America/Jujuy
America/Juneau
America/Kentucky/Louisville
America/Kentucky/Monticello
America/Knox_IN
America/Kralendijk
America/La_Paz
America/Lima
America/Los_Angeles
America/Louisville
America/Lower_Princes
America/Maceio
America/Managua
America/Manaus
America/Marigot
America/Martinique
America/Matamoros
America/Mazatlan
America/Mendoza
America/Menominee
America/Merida
America/Metlakatla
America/Mexico_City
America/Miquelon
America/Moncton
America/Monterrey
America/Montevideo
America/Montreal
America/Montserrat
America/Nassau
America/New_York
America/Nipigon
America/Nome
America/Noronha
America/North_Dakota/Beulah
America/North_Dakota/Center
America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
America/Nuuk
America/Ojinaga
America/Panama
America/Pangnirtung
America/Paramaribo
America/Phoenix
America/Port-au-Prince
America/Port_of_Spain
America/Porto_Acre
America/Porto_Velho
America/Puerto_Rico
America/Punta_Arenas
America/Rainy_River
America/Rankin_Inlet
America/Recife
America/Regina
America/Resolute
America/Rio_Branco
America/Rosario
America/Santa_Isabel
America/Santarem
America/Santiago
America/Santo_Domingo
America/Sao_Paulo
America/Scoresbysund
America/Shiprock
America/Sitka
America/St_Barthelemy
America/St_Johns
America/St_Kitts
America/St_Lucia
America/St_Thomas
America/St_Vincent
America/Swift_Current
America/Tegucigalpa
America/Thule
America/Thunder_Bay
America/Tijuana
America/Toronto
America/Tortola
America/Vancouver
America/Virgin
America/Whitehorse
America/Winnipeg
America/Yakutat
America/Yellowknife
Antarctica/Casey
Antarctica/Davis
Antarctica/DumontDUrville
Antarctica/Macquarie
Antarctica/Mawson
Antarctica/McMurdo
Antarctica/Palmer
Antarctica/Rothera
Antarctica/South_Pole
Antarctica/Syowa
Antarctica/Troll
Antarctica/Vostok
Arctic/Longyearbyen
Asia/Aden
Asia/Almaty
Asia/Amman
Asia/Anadyr
Asia/Aqtau
Asia/Aqtobe
Asia/Ashgabat
Asia/Ashkhabad
Asia/Atyrau
Asia/Baghdad
Asia/Bahrain
Asia/Baku
Asia/Bangkok
Asia/Barnaul
Asia/Beirut
Asia/Bishkek
Asia/Brunei
Asia/Calcutta
Asia/Chita
Asia/Choibalsan
Asia/Chongqing
Asia/Chungking
Asia/Colombo
Asia/Dacca
Asia/Damascus
Asia/Dhaka
Asia/Dili
Asia/Dubai
Asia/Dushanbe
Asia/Famagusta
Asia/Gaza
Asia/Harbin
Asia/Hebron
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
Asia/Hong_Kong
Asia/Hovd
Asia/Irkutsk
Asia/Istanbul
Asia/Jakarta
Asia/Jayapura
Asia/Jerusalem
Asia/Kabul
Asia/Kamchatka
Asia/Karachi
Asia/Kashgar
Asia/Kathmandu
Asia/Katmandu
Asia/Khandyga
Asia/Kolkata
Asia/Krasnoyarsk
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
Asia/Kuching
Asia/Kuwait
Asia/Macao
Asia/Macau
Asia/Magadan
Asia/Makassar
Asia/Manila
Asia/Muscat
Asia/Nicosia
Asia/Novokuznetsk
Asia/Novosibirsk
Asia/Omsk
Asia/Oral
Asia/Phnom_Penh
Asia/Pontianak
Asia/Pyongyang
Asia/Qatar
Asia/Qostanay
Asia/Qyzylorda
Asia/Rangoon
Asia/Riyadh
Asia/Saigon
Asia/Sakhalin
Asia/Samarkand
Asia/Seoul
Asia/Shanghai
Asia/Singapore
Asia/Srednekolymsk
Asia/Taipei
Asia/Tashkent
Asia/Tbilisi
Asia/Tehran
Asia/Tel_Aviv
Asia/Thimbu
Asia/Thimphu
Asia/Tokyo
Asia/Tomsk
Asia/Ujung_Pandang
Asia/Ulaanbaatar
Asia/Ulan_Bator
Asia/Urumqi
Asia/Ust-Nera
Asia/Vientiane
Asia/Vladivostok
Asia/Yakutsk
Asia/Yangon
Asia/Yekaterinburg
Asia/Yerevan
Atlantic/Azores
Atlantic/Bermuda
Atlantic/Canary
Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Atlantic/Faeroe
Atlantic/Faroe
Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
Atlantic/Madeira
Atlantic/Reykjavik
Atlantic/South_Georgia
Atlantic/St_Helena
Atlantic/Stanley
Australia/ACT
Australia/Adelaide
Australia/Brisbane
Australia/Broken_Hill
Australia/Canberra
Australia/Currie
Australia/Darwin
Australia/Eucla
Australia/Hobart
Australia/LHI
Australia/Lindeman
Australia/Lord_Howe
Australia/Melbourne
Australia/North
Australia/NSW
Australia/Perth
Australia/Queensland
Australia/South
Australia/Sydney
Australia/Tasmania
Australia/Victoria
Australia/West
Australia/Yancowinna
Brazil/Acre
Brazil/DeNoronha
Brazil/East
Brazil/West
Canada/Atlantic
Canada/Central
Canada/Eastern
Canada/Mountain
Canada/Newfoundland
Canada/Pacific
Canada/Saskatchewan
Canada/Yukon
CET
Chile/Continental
Chile/EasterIsland
CST6CDT
Cuba
EET
Egypt
Eire
EST
EST5EDT
Etc/GMT
Etc/GMT+0
Etc/GMT+1
Etc/GMT+10
Etc/GMT+11
Etc/GMT+12
Etc/GMT+2
Etc/GMT+3
Etc/GMT+4
Etc/GMT+5
Etc/GMT+6
Etc/GMT+7
Etc/GMT+8
Etc/GMT+9
Etc/GMT-0
Etc/GMT-1
Etc/GMT-10
Etc/GMT-11
Etc/GMT-12
Etc/GMT-13
Etc/GMT-14
Etc/GMT-2
Etc/GMT-3
Etc/GMT-4
Etc/GMT-5
Etc/GMT-6
Etc/GMT-7
Etc/GMT-8
Etc/GMT-9
Etc/GMT0
Etc/Greenwich
Etc/UCT
Etc/Universal
Etc/UTC
Etc/Zulu
Europe/Amsterdam
Europe/Andorra
Europe/Astrakhan
Europe/Athens
Europe/Belfast
Europe/Belgrade
Europe/Berlin
Europe/Bratislava
Europe/Brussels
Europe/Bucharest
Europe/Budapest
Europe/Busingen
Europe/Chisinau
Europe/Copenhagen
Europe/Dublin
Europe/Gibraltar
Europe/Guernsey
Europe/Helsinki
Europe/Isle_of_Man
Europe/Istanbul
Europe/Jersey
Europe/Kaliningrad
Europe/Kiev
Europe/Kirov
Europe/Kyiv
Europe/Lisbon
Europe/Ljubljana
Europe/London
Europe/Luxembourg
Europe/Madrid
Europe/Malta
Europe/Mariehamn
Europe/Minsk
Europe/Monaco
Europe/Moscow
Europe/Nicosia
Europe/Oslo
Europe/Paris
Europe/Podgorica
Europe/Prague
Europe/Riga
Europe/Rome
Europe/Samara
Europe/San_Marino
Europe/Sarajevo
Europe/Saratov
Europe/Simferopol
Europe/Skopje
Europe/Sofia
Europe/Stockholm
Europe/Tallinn
Europe/Tirane
Europe/Tiraspol
Europe/Ulyanovsk
Europe/Uzhgorod
Europe/Vaduz
Europe/Vatican
Europe/Vienna
Europe/Vilnius
Europe/Volgograd
Europe/Warsaw
Europe/Zagreb
Europe/Zaporozhye
Europe/Zurich
GB
GB-Eire
GMT
GMT+0
GMT-0
GMT0
Greenwich
Hongkong
HST
Iceland
Indian/Antananarivo
Indian/Chagos
Indian/Christmas
Indian/Cocos
Indian/Comoro
Indian/Kerguelen
Indian/Mahe
Indian/Maldives
Indian/Mauritius
Indian/Mayotte
Indian/Reunion
Iran
Israel
Jamaica
Japan
Kwajalein
Libya
localtime
MET
Mexico/BajaNorte
Mexico/BajaSur
Mexico/General
MST
MST7MDT
Navajo
NZ
NZ-CHAT
Pacific/Apia
Pacific/Auckland
Pacific/Bougainville
Pacific/Chatham
Pacific/Chuuk
Pacific/Easter
Pacific/Efate
Pacific/Enderbury
Pacific/Fakaofo
Pacific/Fiji
Pacific/Funafuti
Pacific/Galapagos
Pacific/Gambier
Pacific/Guadalcanal
Pacific/Guam
Pacific/Honolulu
Pacific/Johnston
Pacific/Kanton
Pacific/Kiritimati
Pacific/Kosrae
Pacific/Kwajalein
Pacific/Majuro
Pacific/Marquesas
Pacific/Midway
Pacific/Nauru
Pacific/Niue
Pacific/Norfolk
Pacific/Noumea
Pacific/Pago_Pago
Pacific/Palau
Pacific/Pitcairn
Pacific/Pohnpei
Pacific/Ponape
Pacific/Port_Moresby
Pacific/Rarotonga
Pacific/Saipan
Pacific/Samoa
Pacific/Tahiti
Pacific/Tarawa
Pacific/Tongatapu
Pacific/Truk
Pacific/Wake
Pacific/Wallis
Pacific/Yap
Poland
Portugal
PRC
PST8PDT
ROC
ROK
Singapore
Turkey
UCT
Universal
US/Alaska
US/Aleutian
US/Arizona
US/Central
US/East-Indiana
US/Eastern
US/Hawaii
US/Indiana-Starke
US/Michigan
US/Mountain
US/Pacific
US/Samoa
UTC
W-SU
WET
Zulu
```
Search for a timezone:
```text
$ dtg -Z ca/w
Africa/Windhoek
America/Whitehorse
America/Winnipeg
```
Multiple timezones:
```text
$ dtg -z UTC,EST5EDT,CST6CDT,MST7MDT,PST8PDT -f '%Z%n%H:%M:%S%n' -f '%Z%n%Y-%m-%d%n'
UTC
15:01:36
EST
10:01:36
CST
09:01:36
MST
08:01:36
PST
07:01:36
UTC
2026-03-03
EST
2026-03-03
CST
2026-03-03
MST
2026-03-03
PST
2026-03-03
```
*Note the above prints each format for each timezone... to print each timezone for each format,
use a single format and `%n`:*
```text
$ dtg -z UTC,EST5EDT,CST6CDT,MST7MDT,PST8PDT -f '%Z%n%H:%M:%S%n%n%Z%n%Y-%m-%d%n'
UTC
15:01:36
UTC
2026-03-03
EST
10:01:36
EST
2026-03-03
CST
09:01:36
CST
2026-03-03
MST
08:01:36
MST
2026-03-03
PST
07:01:36
PST
2026-03-03
```
Use a custom separator between formats/timezones:
```text
$ dtg -z PST8PDT,MST7MDT,CST6CDT,EST5EDT,UTC -f '[%Z %H:%M:%S]' -s ' '
[PST 07:01:36] [MST 08:01:36] [CST 09:01:36] [EST 10:01:36] [UTC 15:01:36]
```
Named formats:
* a, all
* bcd
* cd, compact-date
* cdt, compact-date-time
* ct, compact-time
* d, default
* i, r, rfc, rfc-3339
* x
```text
$ dtg -l -n all
1772550096.127438933
2026-03-03T15:01:36Z
Tue 03 Mar 2026 15:01:36 UTC
Tue 03 Mar 2026 10:01:36 EST
```
```text
$ dtg -n bcd
⠄⠴|⢠|⢠|⣐|⢀|⡴
```
```text
$ dtg -l -n bcd
⠄⠴|⢠|⢠|⡀|⢀|⡴
```
```text
$ dtg -z MST7MDT -n bcd
⠄⠴|⢠|⢠|⠈|⢀|⡴
```
```text
$ dtg -n compact-date
20260303
```
```text
$ dtg -n compact-date-time
20260303-150136
```
```text
$ dtg -n compact-time
150136
```
```text
$ dtg -n default
Tue 03 Mar 2026 15:01:36 UTC
```
```text
$ dtg -n rfc-3339
2026-03-03T15:01:36Z
```
```text
$ dtg -n x
Xk22F1a
```
Ordered named formats:
```text
$ dtg -x -a
1772550096.160016918
2026-03-03T15:01:36Z
Tue 03 Mar 2026 15:01:36 UTC
Tue 03 Mar 2026 10:01:36 EST
Xk22F1a
$ dtg -a -x
1772550096.164146101
2026-03-03T15:01:36Z
Tue 03 Mar 2026 15:01:36 UTC
Tue 03 Mar 2026 10:01:36 EST
Xk22F1a
$ dtg -n x -n all
Xk22F1a
1772550096.166862795
2026-03-03T15:01:36Z
Tue 03 Mar 2026 15:01:36 UTC
Tue 03 Mar 2026 15:01:36 UTC
$ dtg -n all -n x
1772550096.169197237
2026-03-03T15:01:36Z
Tue 03 Mar 2026 15:01:36 UTC
Tue 03 Mar 2026 15:01:36 UTC
Xk22F1a
```
# Formats
## Date specifiers
Spec. | Example | Description
------|---------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
`%Y` | `2001` | The full proleptic Gregorian year, zero-padded to 4 digits.
`%C` | `20` | The proleptic Gregorian year divided by 100, zero-padded to 2 digits.
`%y` | `01` | The proleptic Gregorian year modulo 100, zero-padded to 2 digits.
`%m` | `07` | Month number (01--12), zero-padded to 2 digits.
`%b` | `Jul` | Abbreviated month name. Always 3 letters.
`%B` | `July` | Full month name. Also accepts corresponding abbreviation in parsing.
`%h` | `Jul` | Same as `%b`.
`%d` | `08` | Day number (01--31), zero-padded to 2 digits.
`%e` | ` 8` | Same as `%d` but space-padded. Same as `%_d`.
`%a` | `Sun` | Abbreviated weekday name. Always 3 letters.
`%A` | `Sunday` | Full weekday name. Also accepts corresponding abbreviation in parsing.
`%w` | `0` | Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, ..., Saturday = 6.
`%u` | `7` | Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, ..., Sunday = 7. (ISO 8601)
`%U` | `28` | Week number starting with Sunday (00--53), zero-padded to 2 digits.
`%W` | `27` | Same as `%U`, but week 1 starts with the first Monday in that year instead.
`%G` | `2001` | Same as `%Y` but uses the year number in ISO 8601 week date.
`%g` | `01` | Same as `%y` but uses the year number in ISO 8601 week date.
`%V` | `27` | Same as `%U` but uses the week number in ISO 8601 week date (01--53).
`%j` | `189` | Day of the year (001--366), zero-padded to 3 digits.
`%D` | `07/08/01` | Month-day-year format. Same as `%m/%d/%y`.
`%x` | `07/08/01` | Locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99).
`%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`.
## Time specifiers
Spec. | Example | Description
-------|---------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------
`%H` | `00` | Hour number (00--23), zero-padded to 2 digits.
`%k` | ` 0` | Same as `%H` but space-padded. Same as `%_H`.
`%I` | `12` | Hour number in 12-hour clocks (01--12), zero-padded to 2 digits.
`%l` | `12` | Same as `%I` but space-padded. Same as `%_I`.
`%P` | `am` | `am` or `pm` in 12-hour clocks.
`%p` | `AM` | `AM` or `PM` in 12-hour clocks.
`%M` | `34` | Minute number (00--59), zero-padded to 2 digits.
`%S` | `60` | Second number (00--60), zero-padded to 2 digits.
`%f` | `026490000` | The fractional seconds (in nanoseconds) since last whole second.
`%.f` | `.026490` | Similar to `.%f` but left-aligned. These all consume the leading dot.
`%.3f` | `.026` | Similar to `.%f` but left-aligned but fixed to a length of 3.
`%.6f` | `.026490` | Similar to `.%f` but left-aligned but fixed to a length of 6.
`%.9f` | `.026490000` | Similar to `.%f` but left-aligned but fixed to a length of 9.
`%3f` | `026` | Similar to `%.3f` but without the leading dot.
`%6f` | `026490` | Similar to `%.6f` but without the leading dot.
`%9f` | `026490000` | Similar to `%.9f` but without the leading dot.
`%R` | `00:34` | Hour-minute format. Same as `%H:%M`.
`%T` | `00:34:60` | Hour-minute-second format. Same as `%H:%M:%S`.
`%X` | `00:34:60` | Locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48).
`%r` | `12:34:60 AM` | Hour-minute-second format in 12-hour clocks. Same as `%I:%M:%S %p`.
## Time zone specifiers
Spec. | Example | Description
------|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
`%Z` | `ACST` | Local time zone name. Skips all non-whitespace characters during parsing.
`%z` | `+0930` | Offset from the local time to UTC (with UTC being `+0000`).
`%:z` | `+09:30` | Same as `%z` but with a colon.
`%#z` | `+09` | *Parsing only:* Same as `%z` but allows minutes to be missing or present.
## Date & time specifiers
Spec. | Example | Description
------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------
`%c` | `Sun Jul 8 00:34:60 2001` | Locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005).
`%+` | `2001-07-08T00:34:60.026490+09:30` | ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 date & time format.
`%s` | `994518299` | UNIX timestamp, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC.
## Special specifiers
Spec. | Description
------|------------------------
`%t` | Literal tab (`\t`).
`%n` | Literal newline (`\n`).
`%%` | Literal percent sign.