The "Advanced Time" options in the Member Center is based off of the php date function. Most date formats will work from the php version.
Quick Reference
Real-world Examples
One last note, if you don't want a character to be processed (such as the word "at") you will need to add a slash before that character (such as "\a\t").
Questions and comments are welcome here.
Quick Reference
| Format Char. | Description | Example returned values |
| Day | ||
| d | Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros | 01 to 31 |
| d | Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros | 01 to 31 |
| D | A textual representation of a day, three letters | Mon through Sun |
| j | Day of the month without leading zeros | 1 to 31 |
| l | A full textual representation of the day of the week | Sunday through Saturday |
| N | ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week | 1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday) |
| S | English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters | st, nd, rd or th. |
| E | English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters, superscripted | st, nd, rd or th |
| w | Numeric representation of the day of the week | 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) |
| z | The day of the year (starting from 0) | 0 through 365 |
| Month | ||
| F | A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March | January through December |
| m | Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
| M | A short textual representation of a month, three letters | Jan through Dec |
| n | Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
| Year | ||
| Y | A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits | Examples: 1999 or 2003 |
| y | A two digit representation of a year | Examples: 99 or 03 |
| Time | ||
| a | Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | am or pm |
| A | Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | AM or PM |
| g | 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
| G | 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 0 through 23 |
| h | 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
| H | 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 00 through 23 |
| i | Minutes with leading zeros | 00 to 59 |
| s | Seconds, with leading zeros | 00 through 59 |
Real-world Examples
- Format: l dS of F Y h:i:s A
Yields: Monday 15th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM - Format l \t\h\e jS
Yields: Wednesday the 15th - Format F j, Y, g:i a
Yields: March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm - Format: m.d.y
Yields 03.10.01 - Format: j, n, Y
Yields 10, 3, 2001 - Format: Ymd
Yields 20010310 - Format: \I\t \i\s \t\h\e jS \d\a\y.
Yields It is the 10th day. - Format: D M j G:i:s Y
Yields Sat Mar 10 15:16:08 2001 - Format: H:i:s
Yields 17:16:17
One last note, if you don't want a character to be processed (such as the word "at") you will need to add a slash before that character (such as "\a\t").
Questions and comments are welcome here.