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DATE -- signature format date

• Syntax: %DATE%
• Expands to: 2024-12-21
• Date format defined as {DefaultDateFormat} in configure, default $year-$mo-$day
• Note: When used in a template topic, this variable will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TWikiTemplates#TemplateTopicsVars for details.
• Category: DateAndTimeVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: DISPLAYTIME, GMTIME{"format"}, SERVERTIME (this topic)

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

• Example:
  <form action="...">
%DATEPICKER{ name="Start_Date" }%
<form>
• Expands to:
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DatabaseAndFormsVariables, DateAndTimeVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables, UIAndVisualizationVariables
• Related: DatePickerPlugin, TWikiForms (this topic)

DISPLAYTIME -- display date and time

• Syntax: %DISPLAYTIME%
• Expands to: 2024-12-21 - 10:59
• Date part of the format is displayed as defined by the {DefaultDateFormat} in configure, default $year-$mo-$day. The time is shown as hh:mm (24 hour clock)
• Category: DateAndTimeVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: DISPLAYTIME{"format"}, GMTIME, SERVERTIME (this topic)

DISPLAYTIME{"format"} -- formatted display time

• Formatted time - either GMT or Local server time, depending on {DisplayTimeValues} setting in configure, default $year-$mo-$day. Same format qualifiers as %GMTIME%
• Syntax: %DISPLAYTIME{"format"}%
• Supported variables: $seconds, $minutes, $hours, $day, $wday, $dow, $month, $mo, $year, $ye, $tz, $iso, $rcs, $http, $epoch
• Example: %DISPLAYTIME{"$hou:$min"}% expands to 10:59
• Category: DateAndTimeVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: DISPLAYTIME, GMTIME, SERVERTIME (this topic)

GMTIME -- GM time

• Syntax: %GMTIME%
• Expands to: 2024-12-21 - 15:59
• Date format defined as {DefaultDateFormat} in configure, default $year-$mo-$day
• Note: When used in a template topic, this variable will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TWikiTemplates#TemplateTopicsVars for details.
• Category: DateAndTimeVariables
• Related: DISPLAYTIME, GMTIME{"format"}, SERVERTIME (this topic)

GMTIME{"format"} -- formatted GM time

• Syntax: %GMTIME{"format"}%
• Supported variables:

  Variable:	Unit:	Example
  $seconds	seconds	59
  $minutes	minutes	59
  $hours	hours	23
  $day	day of month	31
  $wday	day of the Week (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)	Thu
  $dow	day of the week (Sun = 0)	2
  $week	number of week in year (ISO 8601)	34
  $month	short name of month	Dec
  $mo	2 digit month	12
  $year	4 digit year	1999
  $ye	2 digit year	99
  $tz	either "GMT" (if set to gmtime), or offset such as "-0700" (if set to servertime)	GMT
  $iso	ISO format timestamp	2024-12-21T15:59:48Z
  $rcs	RCS format timestamp	2024/12/21 15:59:48
  $http	E-mail & http format timestamp	Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:59:48 GMT
  $epoch	Number of seconds since 00:00 on 1st January, 1970	1734796788

• Variables can be shortened to 3 characters
• Example: %GMTIME{"$day $month, $year - $hour:$min:$sec"}% expands to 21 Dec, 2024 - 15:59:48
• Note: When used in a template topic, this variable will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TWikiTemplates#TemplateTopicsVars for details.
• Category: DateAndTimeVariables
• Related: DISPLAYTIME, GMTIME, REVINFO, SERVERTIME (this topic)

SERVERTIME -- server time

• Syntax: %SERVERTIME%
• Expands to: 2024-12-21 - 10:59
• Date format defined as {DefaultDateFormat} in configure, default $year-$mo-$day
• Note: When used in a template topic, this variable will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TWikiTemplates#TemplateTopicsVars for details.
• Category: DateAndTimeVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: DISPLAYTIME, GMTIME, SERVERTIME{"format"} (this topic)

SERVERTIME{"format"} -- formatted server time

• Same format qualifiers as %GMTIME%
• Syntax: %SERVERTIME{"format"}%
• Supported variables: $seconds, $minutes, $hours, $day, $wday, $dow, $month, $mo, $year, $ye, $tz, $iso, $rcs, $http, $epoch
• Example: %SERVERTIME{"$hou:$min"}% expands to 10:59
• Note: When used in a template topic, this variable will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TWikiTemplates#TemplateTopicsVars for details.
• Category: DateAndTimeVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: DISPLAYTIME, GMTIME, SERVERTIME (this topic)

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