The function strftime () operates somewhat like sprintf (): Identifies a collection of formatting commands that begin with a percent sign (%), and the formatted output is placed in a string. The format command describes the exact representation of the various date and time information in the string strdest. Other characters in the format string are placed in the string as is. The format commands are listed below, and they are case-sensitive.
%a shorthand for the day of the week
%A full name of the week
%b of the Month
Full name of the%B month
Time string for the date of%c standard
After two digits of the%c year
The day ordinal of a month in%d decimal notation
%d Month/day/year
%e the day ordinal of a month in a two-character field, in decimal notation
%F year-month-day
%g two digits of the year, using week-based
%G years, using week-based years
%h Abbreviated month name
%H 24-Hour Hour
%I 12-Hour Hour
%j decimal indicates the day ordinal of the year
%m the month represented by decimal
%M minutes in a 10 o'clock-hour representation
%n New Line character
%p equivalent display of the local AM or PM
%r 12 hours of time
%R display hours and minutes: hh:mm
%s number of seconds in decimal
%t Horizontal Tab
%T display time seconds: hh:mm:ss
%u days of the week, Monday for the first day (values from 0 to 6, Monday to 0)
%u year of the week, the Sunday as the first day (value from 0 to 53)
%V Week of the year, using week-based
%w Decimal Day of the week (value from 0 to 6, Sunday is 0)
%W Week of the year, Monday as the first day (value from 0 to 53)
Date string for%x standard
Time string for%x standard
%y decimal Year without century (values from 0 to 99)
%Y 10 year with century part
%z,%z the time zone name and returns a null character if the time zone name cannot be obtained.
Percent hundred percent semicolon