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DATE -- signature format date

DATEPICKER{} -- pop-up calendar to select a date for use in HTML forms

  • The %DATEPICKER{}% variable is handled by the DatePickerPlugin.
  • Syntax: %DATEPICKER{ name="..." value="..." }%
  • Parameters:
Parameter Description Default Example
name Name of input field.
φ: No output is shown if the name parameter is missing, but the CSS and Javascript are loaded.
(requiredφ) name="Start"
value Initial date value. "" (today) value="2012-12-31"
format Format of resulting date value.
%a - abbreviated weekday name
%A - full weekday name
%b - abbreviated month name
%B - full month name
%C - century number
%d - the day of the month (00 ... 31)
%e - the day of the month (0 ... 31)
%H - hour (00 ... 23)
%I - hour (01 ... 12)
%j - day of the year ( 000 ... 366)
%k - hour (0 ... 23)
%l - hour (1 ... 12)
%m - month (01 ... 12)
%M - minute (00 ... 59)
%n - a newline character
%p - "PM" or "AM"
%P - "pm" or "am"
%S - second (00 ... 59)
%s - number of seconds since Epoch (since Jan 01 1970 00:00:00 UTC)
%t - a tab character
%U, %W, %V - the week number. The week 01 is the week that has the Thursday in the current year, which is equivalent to the week that contains the fourth day of January. Weeks start on Monday.
%u - the day of the week (1 ... 7, 1 = MON)
%w - the day of the week (0 ... 6, 0 = SUN)
%y - year without the century (00 ... 99)
%Y - year including the century (ex. 2012)
%% - a literal % character
"%Y-%m-%d" format="%e %b %Y"
id ID of input field, optional. "id_" + name id="idStart"
size Size of input field, in number of characters. (calculated as needed) size="12"
class CSS class of input field. "twikiInputField" class="dateField"
Additional HTML input field attributes, such as alt, disabled, maxlength, onblur, onchange, onfocus, readonly, style, tabindex, title    

DISPLAYTIME -- display date and time

DISPLAYTIME{"format"} -- formatted display time

GMTIME -- GM time

GMTIME{"format"} -- formatted GM time

  • Syntax: %GMTIME{"format"}%
  • Supported variables:
Variable: Unit:Sorted ascending Example
$mo 2 digit month 12
$ye 2 digit year 99
$year 4 digit year 1999
$day day of month 31
$dow day of the week (Sun = 0) 2
$wday day of the Week (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat) Thu
$http E-mail & http format timestamp Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:49:39 GMT
$tz either "GMT" (if set to gmtime),
or offset such as "-0700" (if set to servertime)
GMT
$hours hours 23
$iso ISO format timestamp 2024-03-28T17:49:39Z
$minutes minutes 59
$epoch Number of seconds since 00:00 on 1st January, 1970 1711648179
$week number of week in year (ISO 8601) 34
$rcs RCS format timestamp 2024/03/28 17:49:39
$seconds seconds 59
$month short name of month Dec

SERVERTIME -- server time

SERVERTIME{"format"} -- formatted server time

Total: 8 variables

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