Ubuntu Custom Date Time Format

Oct 20, 2020

%d %b %H:%M: 20 Oct 13:10

%a     locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)

%A     locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)

%b     locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)

%B     locale's full month name (e.g., January)

%c     locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar  3 23:05:25 2005)

%C     century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20)

%d     day of month (e.g., 01)

%D     date; same as %m/%d/%y

%e     day of month, space padded; same as %_d

%F     full date; like %+4Y-%m-%d

%g     last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)

%G     year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V

%h     same as %b

%H     hour (00..23)

%I     hour (01..12)

%j     day of year (001..366)

%k     hour, space padded ( 0..23); same as %_H

%l     hour, space padded ( 1..12); same as %_I

%m     month (01..12)

%M     minute (00..59)

%n     a newline

%N     nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)

%p     locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known

%P     like %p, but lower case

%q     quarter of year (1..4)

%r     locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)

%R     24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M

%s     seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

%S     second (00..60)

%t     a tab

%T     time; same as %H:%M:%S

%u     day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday

%U     week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)

%V     ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)

%w     day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday

%W     week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)

%x     locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)

%X     locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)

%y     last two digits of year (00..99)

%Y     year

%z     +hhmm numeric time zone (e.g., -0400)

%:z    +hh:mm numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00)

%::z   +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)

%:::z  numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04,
      +05:30)

%Z     alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes.  The following
optional flags may follow '%':

-      (hyphen) do not pad the field

_      (underscore) pad with spaces

0      (zero) pad with zeros

+      pad with zeros, and put '+' before future years with >4 digits

^      use upper case if possible

#      use opposite case if possible

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