os.date()
- Aryn Wiebe
os.date() returns a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as a string or a table ('*t') containing date and time, formatted according to the given format string.
If the optional os.time() argument is present, this is used as the time to be formatted as a Unix Epoch Time in seconds.
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The % character is used as an escape character to format the string returned.
Code | Replacing Value | Example |
|---|---|---|
%a | Abbreviated weekday name | Thu |
%A | Full weekday name | Thursday |
%b | Abbreviated month name | Aug |
%B | Full month name | August |
%c | Date and time representation (DEFAULT) | Thu Aug 23 14:55:02 2001 |
%d | Day of the month (01-31) | 23 |
%H | Hour in 24h format (00-23) | 14 |
%I | Hour in 12h format (01-12) | 02 |
%j | Day of the year (001-366) | 235 |
%m | Month as a decimal number (01-12) | 08 |
%M | Minute (00-59) | 55 |
%p | AM or PM designation | PM |
%S | Second (00-61) | 02 |
%U | Week number with the first Sunday as the first day of week one (00-53) | 33 |
%w | Weekday as a decimal number with Sunday as 0 (0-6) | 4 |
%W | Week number with the first Monday as the first day of week one (00-53) | 34 |
%x | Date representation * | 08/23/01 |
%X | Time representation * | 14:55:02 |
%y | Year, last two digits (00-99) | 01 |