Mask as strftime string.

Mask as strftime string.

Text input to be parsed.

Optional Date object to be used a base date for filling the parsed values.

parse {HTML} (Optional)

Any strftime string is supported, such as %I:%M:%S %p. This format has several specifiers defined by the Open group at: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html

PHP added a few of its own, defined at: http://www.php.net/strftime

This JavaScript implementation supports all the PHP specifiers and a few more. The full list is below:

If not specified, it defaults to the ISO 8601 standard date format: %Y-%m-%d.

• %a abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale
• %A full weekday name according to the current locale
• %b abbreviated month name according to the current locale
• %B full month name according to the current locale
• %c preferred date and time representation for the current locale
• %C century number (the year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer, range 00 to 99)
• %d day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31)
• %D same as %m/%d/%y
• %e day of the month as a decimal number, a single digit is preceded by a space (range 1 to 31)
• %E day of the month as a decimal number (range 1 to 31)
• %F same as %Y-%m-%d (ISO 8601 date format)
• %g like %G, but without the century
• %G The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number
• %h same as %b
• %H hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23)
• %I hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12)
• %j day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366)
• %k hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 0 to 23); single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %H.)
• %l hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 1 to 12); single digits are preceded by a blank. (See also %I.)
• %m month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12)
• %M minute as a decimal number
• %n newline character
• %p either AM or PM according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale
• %P like %p, but lower case
• %r time in a.m. and p.m. notation equal to %I:%M:%S %p
• %R time in 24 hour notation equal to %H:%M
• %s number of seconds since the Epoch, ie, since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
• %S second as a decimal number
• %t tab character
• %T current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
• %u weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday
• %U week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
• %V The ISO 8601:1988 week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the current year, and with Monday as the first day of the week.
• %w day of the week as a decimal, Sunday being 0
• %W week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
• %x preferred date representation for the current locale without the time
• %X preferred time representation for the current locale without the date
• %y year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99)
• %Y year as a decimal number including the century
• %z numerical time zone representation
• %Z time zone name or abbreviation
• %% a literal % character