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Date format

This section is for people that are not familiar with AmigaDOS date format inj general. Here is the string components you can uses to alter the date format:

    %a - abbreviated weekday name
    %A - weekday name
    %b - abbreviated month name
    %B - month name
    %c - same as "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"
    %C - same as "%a %b %e %T %Z %Y"
    %d - day number with leading 0s
    %D - same as "%m/%d/%y"
    %e - day number with leading spaces
    %h - abbreviated month name
    %H - hour using 24-hour style with leading 0s
    %I - hour using 12-hour style with leading 0s
    %j - julian date
    %m - month number with leading 0s
    %M - the number of minutes with leading 0s
    %n - insert a linefeed
    %p - AM or PM strings
    %q - hour using 24-hour style
    %Q - hour using 12-hour style
    %r - same as "%I:%M:%S %p"
    %R - same as "%H:%M"
    %S - number of seconds with leadings 0s
    %t - insert a tab character
    %T - same as "%H:%M:%S"
    %U - week number, taking Sunday as first day of week
    %w - weekday number
    %W - week number, taking Monday as first day of week
    %x - same as "%m/%d/%y"
    %X - same as "%H:%M:%S"
    %y - year using two digits with leading 0s
    %Y - year using four digits with leading 0s