University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)
Institute of Computational Biology

GMTIME -- formatted Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)

Parameters

Parameter Description Default
"format" format $day $month $year - $hour:$min
%GMTIME% uses the default date format defined by the {DefaultDateFormat} setting in configure

Supported special format tokens:

Token: Unit: Example
$seconds seconds 59
$minutes minutes 59
$hours hours 23
$day day of month 31
$wday day of the Week (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat) Thu
$dow day of the week (Sun = 0) 2
$week number of week in year (ISO 8601) 34
$month short name of month Dec
$mo 2 digit month 12
$year 4 digit year 1999
$ye 2 digit year 99
$tz either "GMT" (if set to gmtime), or "Local" (if set to servertime) GMT
$iso ISO format timestamp 2025-01-10T16:01:46Z
$rcs RCS format timestamp 2025/01/10 16:01:46
$http E-mail & http format timestamp Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:01:46 GMT
$epoch Number of seconds since 00:00 on 1st January, 1970 1736524906
Tokens can be shortened to 3 characters

Examples

  • %GMTIME% expands to 10 Jan 2025 - 16:01
  • %GMTIME{"$day $month, $year - $hour:$min:$sec"}% expands to 10 Jan, 2025 - 16:01:46
    ALERT! When used in a template topic, this macro will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TemplateTopics#TemplateTopicsVars for details.

GMTIME, REVINFO, SERVERTIME
Topic revision: r1 - 17 Jun 2022, ProjectContributor
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