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The Date and Time Hot Codes

These codes are used to insert a specific date and/or time into the target document.

Code	Action	Example
<YYYY>	Insert the current year with century, as decimal number	If today is April 10, 2001 then <YYYY> with insert "2001"
<YY>	Insert the current year without century, as decimal number (00-99)	If today is April 09, 2001 then <YY> with insert "01"
<MMMM>	Insert the current month name in full form	If today is April 09, 2001 then <MMMM> with insert "April"
<MMM>	Insert the current month name in short form	If today is April 09, 2001 then <MMM> with insert "Apr"
<MM>	Insert the current month as decimal number (01-12)	If today is April 09, 2001 then <MM> with insert "04"
<M>	Insert the current month as decimal number without the leading zero (1-12)	If today is April 09, 2001 then <M> with insert "4"
<DDDD>	Insert the current weekday name in full form	If today is April 09, 2001 then <DDDD> with insert "Tuesday"
<DDD>	Insert the current weekday name in short form	If today is April 09, 2001 then <DDD> with insert "Tue"
<DD>	Insert the current day of month as decimal number (01-31)	If today is April 09, 2001 then <DD> with insert "09"
<D>	Insert the current day of month as decimal number without the leading zero (1-31)	If today is April 09, 2001 then <DD> with insert "9"
<HOUR12>	Insert the current hour of day in 12-hour format (00-11)	If now is 13:15:16 PM then <HOUR12> with insert "01"
<HOUR>	Insert the current hour of day in 24-hour format (00-23)	If now is 13:15:16 PM then <HOUR> with insert "13"
<MIN>	Insert the current minute of hour in decimal number (00-59)	If now is 13:15:16 PM then <MIN> with insert "15"
<SEC>	Insert the current second of minute in decimal number (00-59)	If now is 13:15:16 PM then <SEC> with insert "16"
<AMPM>	Insert the AM/PM indicator	If now is 13:15:16 PM then <AMPM> with insert "PM"

The Extended Date and Time Hot Codes

These extended codes are also used to insert a specific date and/or time into the target document.

Code	Action	Example
<TIME:format>	Insert the current time with the specific format (see below)	If today is April 10, 2001 then <TIME:%#m/%#d/%y> with insert 04/10/01
<TIME:+(hours:minutes :seconds):format>	Insert the time ahead of the current time by (hours:minutes :seconds), and with the specific time format (see below)	<TIME:+(24:0:0):%#d> will insert the date of 24 hours from now (e.g tomorrow)
<TIME:-(hours :minutes :seconds):format>	Insert the time before the current time by (hours:minutes :seconds), and with the specific time format (see below)	<TIME:-(24:0:0):%#d> will insert the date of 24 hours prior (e.g. yesterday)

 

Time Format

 The time format consists of one or more characters. Characters preceded by a percent sign % bear a special meaning:

Characters	Meaning	Example
%a	Abbreviated weekday name
%A	Full weekday name
%b	Abbreviated month name
%B	Full month name
%c	Date and time representation appropriate for the current Windows setting
%d	Day of month as decimal number (01 - 31)
%H	Hour in 24-hour format (00 - 23)
%l	Hour in 12-hour format (01 - 12)
%j	Day of year as decimal number (001 - 366)
%m	Month as decimal number (01 - 12)
%M	Minute as decimal number (00 - 59)
%p	A.M./P.M. indicator for 12-hour clock
%S	Second as decimal number (00 - 59)
%U	Week of year as decimal number, with Sunday as the first day of week (00 - 53)
%w	Weekday as decimal number (0 - 6; Sunday is 0)
%W	Week of year as decimal number, with Monday as the first day of week (00 - 53)
%y	Year without century, as decimal number (00 - 99)
%Y	Year with century, as decimal number
%%	Percent sign (%)

Characters that do not begin with & are left unchanged. You can also use the # flag to prefix any formatting code. In that case, the meaning of the format code is changed as follows.

%#a, %#A, %#b, %#B, %#p, %#X, %#z, %#Z, %#%
# flag is ignored.

%#c
Long date and time representation. For example: "Tuesday, March 14, 1995, 12:41:29".

%#x
Long date representation. For example: "Tuesday, March 14, 1995".

%#d, %#H, %#I, %#j, %#m, %#M, %#S, %#U, %#w, %#W, %#y, %#Y
Remove leading zeros (if any).