Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Time Formats for SSI Output

SSI provides a rich set of date and time formats that can be used with the timefmt attribute of the config command. To format the date, insert the code for the format, separated by commas as you intend it to display in the inserted text:

<!--#config timefmt="%A, %B %e, %Y" -->
Good morning! It is now <!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->

This would result in the date and time displayed in this manner:

Good morning! It is now Friday, June 22, 2001

As you can see, %A specifies the full day name, %B specifies the full month name, etc. Commas placed within the list will display in the inserted date and time.

Table 18-1 provides the standard SSI time format codes and their meanings.

Table 18-1. SSI time formats

Status code	Meaning	Example
%a	Day of the week abbreviation	Sun
%A	Day of the week	Sunday
%b	Month name abbreviation (also %h)	Jan
%B	Month name	January
%d	Day of the month	01
%D	Date as "%m/%d/%y"	07/19/65
%e	Day of the month	1 (not 01)
%H	24-hour clock hour	13
%I	12-hour clock hour	01
%j	Decimal day of the year	148
%m	Month number	11
%M	Minutes	08
%p	AM | PM	AM
%r	Time as "%I:%M:%S %p"	01:50:40 AM
%S	Seconds	09
%T	24-hour time as "$H:%M:%S"	20:15:30
%U	Week of the year (also %W)	37
%w	Day of the week number (starting with Sunday=0)	2
%y	Year of the century	01
%Y	Year	2001
%Z	Time zone	EST