Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition

Configurable Time Formats for SSI Output

Among its functions, the config SSI command allows you to specify the way the time and date are displayed with the timefmt argument. It takes a number of special values that are summarized in Table 13-1.

Table 13-1. 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	Date	01
%D	Date as %m/%d/%y	06/23/95
%e	Date	1 (not 01)
%H	24-hour clock hour	13
%I	12-hour clock hour	01
%j	Decimal day of the year	360
%m	Month number	11
%M	Minutes	08
%p	AM | PM	AM
%r	Time as %I:%M:%S %p	09:21:13 PM
%S	Seconds	09
%T	24-hour time as %H:%M:%S	12:22:40
%U	Week of the year (also %W)	37
%w	Day of the week number (starting with Sunday=0)	2
%y	Year of the century	96
%Y	Year	1996
%Z	Time zone	EST

The config command in the following example makes use of two of those special time values:

<!--#config timefmt="%D %r" -->
The file address.html was last modified on: 
        <!--#flastmod file="address.html"-->.

where %D specifies that the date appear in “mm/dd/yy” format, and %r specifies that the time appear as “hh/mm/ss AM|PM”.

Thus the previous example produces output such as:

The file address.html was last modified on: 12/23/95 07:17:39 PM