Several Macros including the Today Macro take a Date Format String as an optional argument. This string can be a combination of ordinary text, with some special characters that get substituted by parts of the date:
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DDD - day of week in full (eg, "Monday")
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ddd - short day of week (eg, "Mon")
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DD - day of month
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0DD - adds a leading zero
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DDth - adds a suffix
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WW - ~ISO-8601 week number of year
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0WW - adds a leading zero
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MMM - month in full (eg, "July")
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mmm - short month (eg, "Jul")
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MM - month number
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0MM - adds leading zero
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YYYY - full year
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YY - two digit year
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wYYYY - full year with respect to week number
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wYY two digit year with respect to week number
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hh - hours
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0hh - adds a leading zero
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hh12 - hours in 12 hour clock
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0hh12 - hours in 12 hour clock with leading zero
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mm - minutes
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0mm - minutes with leading zero
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ss - seconds
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0ss - seconds with leading zero
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am or pm - lower case AM/PM indicator
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AM or PM - upper case AM/PM indicator
Examples
DDth MMM YYYY - 16th February 2011
DDth mmm hh:mm:ss - 16th Feb 2011 11:38:42
