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Date & Time Formatting

Customize how dates and times are displayed on your status page using strftime-style directives.

Statuspal allows you to customize how dates and times are displayed on your status page. To configure this, click Status Page in the admin sidebar and look for the date/time formatting fields.

You can configure:

  • Time format — 24-hour or AM/PM, applies globally across the status page.

  • Short date string — Used in places like the incidents and maintenance list.

Directive format

A directive is a percent sign (%) followed by a character. Optional specifiers can be inserted between them:

%<flag><width><modifier><directive>

Flags:

Flag
Description

-

Don't pad numerical results

0

Pad with zeros

_

Pad with spaces

:, ::

Used with %z only

<width> is a non-negative decimal number specifying the minimum field width.

<modifier> can be E or O (locale-sensitive, currently ignored).

Directive reference

Directive
Description
Example

%%

Literal %

%

Years

%Y

Full year (0–9999)

2024

%y

Last two digits of year (00–99)

24

%C

Century number (00–99)

20

%G

ISO week year (0–9999)

2024

%g

ISO week year, 2 digits (00–99)

24

Months

%m

Month number (1–12)

03

%b

Abbreviated month name

Mar

%h

Same as %b

Mar

%B

Full month name

March

Days

%d

Day of month (1–31)

05

%e

Day of month, space-padded (1–31)

5

%j

Day of year (001–366)

064

%u

Weekday, Monday first (1–7)

2

%w

Weekday, Sunday first (0–6)

2

%a

Abbreviated weekday name

Tue

%A

Full weekday name

Tuesday

Hours

%H

Hour, 24-hour clock (00–23)

14

%I

Hour, 12-hour clock (01–12)

02

%k

Hour, 24-hour, space-padded (0–23)

14

%l

Hour, 12-hour, space-padded (1–12)

2

%P

am or pm

pm

%p

AM or PM

PM

Minutes & seconds

%M

Minute (00–59)

30

%S

Second (00–60)

45

Timezone

%z

UTC offset (e.g. +0200)

+0200

%:z

UTC offset with colon (e.g. +02:00)

+02:00

%Z

Timezone abbreviation

CET

Composite

%D

Equivalent to %m/%d/%y

03/05/24

%F

Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (ISO 8601)

2024-03-05

%R

Equivalent to %H:%M

14:30

%T

Equivalent to %H:%M:%S

14:30:45

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