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Customize FeedWind date/time formats

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Find out how to customize your date/time format

FeedWind supports a number of different formats for the date/time displayed below feed items. The Date/Time can also be switched off completely if required.

The setup screen contains options for changing the time/date layout with the option to switch off the date/time altogether and also to change the format chosen from 2 available standard formats.

Default Date/Time Format

The default format for the date/time in FeedWind is:

MMM DD, YYYY HH:MM AM/PM

For example:

Aug 17, 2015 12:04 AM


The Date/Time component of the FeedWind HTML snippet looks like this:

datetime_format: "%b %e, %Y %l:%M %p"

This can be edited manually to change the layout of your Date/Time. Note: It is not possible to edit the code snippet directly on the feedWind setup page. Manual edits must be performed after the code has been copy/pasted to an editor.

Example:

For example, to have the date only, the code would be edited to read:

datetime_format: "%b %e, %Y"

Which would return a date such as:

Jun 16 2015

Dividers

The divider between date/time components can be added too. For example from the default comma "," to another character, simply by replacing the comma and adding another divider character between the required date/time components.

For example: you could use datetime_format: "%b/%e/%Y" to produce a date Jun/16/2015



Table1 below shows some commonly used parameters for quick reference.

See Table2 for a full list of the available options.


PARAMETER
[Note: these are case sensitive)
REPRESENTS FORMAT EXAMPLE: Jan 12th 2015 05:35 AM
%e Day DD 12
%b Month (String) MMM Jan
%m Month (Numeric) MM 01
%Y Year YYYY 2015
%l Hour HH 05
%M Minute MM 35
%p AM/PM PM or AM AM


Table2 below shows the full list of available parameters with a detailed description.*

*Information courstesy of CPAN
PARAMETER DESCRIPTION/USAGE
%aThe abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale.
%AThe full weekday name according to the current locale.
%bThe abbreviated month name according to the current locale.
%BThe full month name according to the current locale.
%cThe preferred date and time representation for the current locale.
%CThe century number (year/100) as a 2-digit integer. (SU)
%dThe day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31).
%DEquivalent to %m/%d/%y. (for Americans only: Americans should note that in other countries %d/%m/%y is rather common. This means that in international context this format is ambiguous and should not be used.) (SU)
%eLike %d, the day of the month as a decimal number, but a leading zero is replaced by a space. (SU)
%EModifier: use alternative format, see below. (SU)
%FEquivalent to %Y-%m-%d (the ISO 8601 date format). (C99)
%GThe ISO 8601 week-based year (see NOTES) with century as a decimal number. The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V). This has the same format and value as %Y, except that if the ISO week number belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. (TZ)
%gLike %G, but without century, that is, with a 2-digit year (00-99). (TZ)
%hEquivalent to %b. (SU)
%HThe hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23).
%IThe hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12).
%jThe day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366).
%kThe hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 0 to 23); single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %H.) (TZ)
%lThe hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number (range 1 to 12); single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %I.) (TZ)
%mThe month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12).
%MThe minute as a decimal number (range 00 to 59).
%nA newline character. (SU)
%OModifier: use alternative format, see below. (SU)
%pEither "AM" or "PM" according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale. Noon is treated as "PM" and midnight as "AM".
%PLike %p but in lowercase: "am" or "pm" or a corresponding string for the current locale. (GNU)
%rThe time in a.m. or p.m. notation. In the POSIX locale this is equivalent to %I:%M:%S %p. (SU)
%RThe time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M). (SU) For a version including the seconds, see %T below.
%sThe number of seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC). (TZ)
%SThe second as a decimal number (range 00 to 60). (The range is up to 60 to allow for occasional leap seconds.)
%tA tab character. (SU)
%TThe time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M:%S). (SU)
%uThe day of the week as a decimal, range 1 to 7, Monday being 1. See also %w. (SU)
%UThe week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 00 to 53, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of week 01. See also %V and %W.
%VThe ISO 8601 week number (see NOTES) of the current year as a decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the new year. See also %U and %W. (SU)
%wThe day of the week as a decimal, range 0 to 6, Sunday being 0. See also %u.
%WThe week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 00 to 53, starting with the first Monday as the first day of week 01.
%xThe preferred date representation for the current locale without the time.
%XThe preferred time representation for the current locale without the date.
%yThe year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99).
%YThe year as a decimal number including the century.
%zThe +hhmm or -hhmm numeric timezone (that is, the hour and minute offset from UTC). (SU)
%ZThe timezone or name or abbreviation.
%+The date and time in date(1) format. (TZ) (Not supported in glibc2.)
%%A literal % character.


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