Omnigraffle Date & Time Formatting

I did a few searches for Omnigraffle date time format and didn’t find any conclusive results. So I created block of test code containing every letter of the alphabet and then used the search results to document each code. There were a few I wasn’t 100% sure of, so please leave a comment if you know more.

Examples

To get Last modified on Friday, September 4 at 01:42 AM, use:

Last modified on <%ModificationDate %A, %B %e at %I:%M %p %>

To get 2005-10-07 01:48, use:

<%Date %Y-%m-%d %H:%M%>

To get Oct 07, 2005, use:

<%Date %b %d, %Y%>

General Codes

• %c

  Preferred local format

  <%Date %c%> Fri Sep 04 01:50:02 US/Pacific 2009

• %x

  The language-aware standard date representation.

  <%ModificationDate %x %>
  Thu Sep 03 2009
  

• %X

  The language-aware time representation.

  <%ModificationDate %X %>
  15:36:49 US/Pacific
  

Time Codes

• %I

  The two-digit hour on a 12-hour clock padded with a zero if applicable.

  <%ModificationDate %I %>
  03
  

• %i

  Seems to be an alias of %I (Halp?)

• %H

  The two-digit 24-hour clock padded with a zero if applicable.

  <%ModificationDate %H %>
  16
  

• %M

  The two-digits minute padded with a leading zero if applicable.

  <%ModificationDate %M %>
  02
  

• %S

  The two-digit second padded with a zero if applicable.

  <%ModificationDate %S %>
  04
  

• %p

  Either AM or PM. Language dependent.

  <%ModificationDate %p %>
  AM
  

• %F

  Three digit miliseconds, range from 000 to 999.

  <%ModificationDate %F %>
  845
  

• %Z

  Time zone.

  <%Date %Z%>
  US/Pacific
  

• %z

  Timezone offset.

  <%Date %z%>
  -0700
  

Date Codes

• %A

  The full weekday name.

  <%ModificationDate %A %>
  Thursday
  

• %a

  The abbreviated weekday name.

  <%ModificationDate %a %>
  Thu
  

• %B

  The full month name.

  <%ModificationDate %B %>
  September
  

• %b

  The abbreviated month name.

  <%ModificationDate %b %>
  Sep
  

• %m

  The two-digit month padded with a leading zero if applicable.

  <%ModificationDate %m %>
  09
  

• %e

  The day of the month.

  <%ModificationDate %e %>
  9
  

• %Y

  The four-digit year.

  <%ModificationDate %Y %>
  2009
  

• %y

  The two-digit year padded with a leading zero if applicable.

  <%ModificationDate %y %>
  01
  

• %j

  The three-digit day of the year (ranging from 000 to 364) padded with leading zeroes if applicable.

  <%ModificationDate %j %>
  040
  

• %w

  The numeric day of the week ranging from 0 to 6 where 0 is Sunday.

  <%ModificationDate %w %>
  0
  

Testing Code

a: <%ModificationDate %a %>  A: <%ModificationDate %A %>
b: <%ModificationDate %b %>  B: <%ModificationDate %B %>
c: <%ModificationDate %c %>  C: <%ModificationDate %C %>
d: <%ModificationDate %d %>  D: <%ModificationDate %D %>
e: <%ModificationDate %e %>  E: <%ModificationDate %E %>
f: <%ModificationDate %f %>  F: <%ModificationDate %F %>
g: <%ModificationDate %g %>  G: <%ModificationDate %G %>
h: <%ModificationDate %h %>  H: <%ModificationDate %H %>
i: <%ModificationDate %i %>  I: <%ModificationDate %I %>
j: <%ModificationDate %j %>  J: <%ModificationDate %J %>
k: <%ModificationDate %k %>  K: <%ModificationDate %K %>
l: <%ModificationDate %l %>  L: <%ModificationDate %L %>
m: <%ModificationDate %m %>  M: <%ModificationDate %M %>
n: <%ModificationDate %n %>  N: <%ModificationDate %N %>
o: <%ModificationDate %o %>  O: <%ModificationDate %O %>
p: <%ModificationDate %p %>  P: <%ModificationDate %P %>
q: <%ModificationDate %q %>  Q: <%ModificationDate %Q %>
r: <%ModificationDate %r %>  R: <%ModificationDate %R %>
s: <%ModificationDate %s %>  S: <%ModificationDate %S %>
t: <%ModificationDate %t %>  T: <%ModificationDate %T %>
u: <%ModificationDate %u %>  U: <%ModificationDate %U %>
v: <%ModificationDate %v %>  V: <%ModificationDate %V %>
w: <%ModificationDate %w %>  W: <%ModificationDate %W %>
x: <%ModificationDate %x %>  X: <%ModificationDate %X %>
y: <%ModificationDate %y %>  Y: <%ModificationDate %Y %>
z: <%ModificationDate %z %>  Z: <%ModificationDate %Z %>