Cocoa Date Formats
I’m posting this here mostly for quick personal reference. Below is the date format strings used by NSCalendarDate this information was taken from here.
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Conversion Specifier |
Description |
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%% |
a ‘%’ character |
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%a |
abbreviated weekday name |
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%A |
full weekday name |
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%b |
abbreviated month name |
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%B |
full month name |
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%c |
shorthand for %X %x, the locale format for date and time |
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%d |
day of the month as a decimal number (01-31) |
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%e |
same as %d but does not print the leading 0 for days 1 through 9 |
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%F |
milliseconds as a decimal number (000-999) |
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%H |
hour based on a 24-hour clock as a decimal number (00-23) |
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%I |
hour based on a 12-hour clock as a decimal number (01-12) |
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%j |
day of the year as a decimal number (001-366) |
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%m |
month as a decimal number (01-12) |
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%M |
minute as a decimal number (00-59) |
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%p |
AM/PM designation for the locale |
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%S |
second as a decimal number (00-59) |
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%w |
weekday as a decimal number (0-6), where Sunday is 0 |
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%x |
date using the date representation for the locale |
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%X |
time using the time representation for the locale |
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%y |
year without century (00-99) |
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%Y |
year with century (such as 1990) |
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%Z |
time zone name (such as Pacific Daylight Time) |
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%z |
time zone offset in hours and minutes from GMT (HHMM) |
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