strftime Format Codes

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Days

%a

Weekday as locale's abbreviated name

Sun, Mon, ..., Sat (en_US); So, Mo, ..., Sa (de_DE).

%A

Weekday as locale's full name

Sunday, Monday, ..., Saturday (en_US); Sonntag, Montag, ..., Samstag (de_DE).

%w

Weekday as a decimal number, where 0 is Sunday and 6 is Saturday

0, 1, ..., 6.

%d

Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number

01, 02, ..., 31.

Months

%b

Month as locale's abbreviated name

Jan, Feb, ..., Dec (en_US); Jan, Feb, ..., Dez (de_DE).

%B

Month as locale's full name

January, February, ..., December (en_US); Januar, Februar, ..., Dezember (de_DE).

%m

Month as a zero-padded decimal number

01, 02, ..., 12.

Years

%y

Year without century as a zero-padded decimal number

00, 01, ..., 99.

%Y

Year with century as a decimal number

0001, 0002, ..., 2013, 2014, ..., 9998, 9999.

Hours

%H

Hour (24-hour clock) as a zero-padded decimal number

00, 01, ..., 23.

%I

Hour (12-hour clock) as a zero-padded decimal number

01, 02, ..., 12.

Minutes and Seconds

%M

Minute as a zero-padded decimal number

00, 01, ..., 59.

%S

Second as a zero-padded decimal number

00, 01, ..., 59.

%f

Microsecond as a decimal number, zero-padded on the left

000000, 000001, ..., 999999.

Other

%p

Locale's equivalent of either AM or PM

AM, PM (en_US); am, pm (de_DE).

%z

UTC offset in the form +HHMM or -HHMM (or empty string if the the object is naive)

+0000, -0400, +1030.

%Z

Time zone name (or empty string if the object is naive)

UTC, EST, CST.

%j

Day of the year as a zero-padded decimal number

001, 002, ..., 366.

%U

Week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a zero padded decimal number. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0

00, 01, ..., 53 (7).

%W

Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number. All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0

00, 01, ..., 53 (7).

%c

Locale's appropriate date and time representation

Tue Aug 16 21:30:00 1988 (en_US); Di 16 Aug 21:30:00 1988 (de_DE).

%x

Locale's appropriate date representation

08/16/88 (None); 08/16/1988 (en_US); 16.08.1988 (de_DE).

%X

Locale's appropriate time representation

21:30:00 (en_US); 21:30:00 (de_DE).

%%

A literal '%' character

%

Notes

All examples and descriptions are taken from the Python datetime documentation, but are not specific to Python.