Clock and Date Format Options

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This is the full list of format options for the clock in your desktop panel:

%%  a literal %
%a  locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
%A  locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%b  locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
%B  locale's full month name (e.g., January)
%c  locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005)
%C  century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21)
%d  day of month (e.g, 01)
%D  date; same as %m/%d/%y
%e  day of month, space padded; same as %_d
%F  full date; same as %Y-%m-%d
%g  last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)
%G  year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V
%h  same as %b
%H  hour (00..23)
%I  hour (01..12)
%j  day of year (001..366)
%k  hour ( 0..23)
%l  hour ( 1..12)
%m  month (01..12)
%M  minute (00..59)
%n  a newline
%p  locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known
%P  like %p, but lower case
%r  locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
%R  24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
%s  seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
%S  second (00..60)
%t  a tab
%T  time; same as %H:%M:%S
%u  day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
%U  week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%V  ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
%w  day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
%W  week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%x  locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
%X  locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
%y  last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y  year
%z  +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)
%Z  alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)


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