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This request allows you to output the current time and/or date.  For example, If I wanted to print out the current time and date I would use:

[output type='date' format='l dS of F Y h:i:s A']

This would print out 'Wednesday 15th of January 2003 05:51:38 AM' or whatever the current date and time is.  You can use other formats with the key legend below. You must specify a format with the attribute format when using the date request.

FORMAT KEY LEGEND
Example time: Wednesday 15th of January 2003 05:51:38 AM
format character Description Example returned values
a yyyy 2001
A Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem AM or PM
B Swatch Internet time 000 through 999
d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros 01 to 31
D A textual representation of a day, three letters Mon through Sun
F A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March January through December
g 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 1 through 12
G 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros 0 through 23
h 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 01 through 12
H 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros 00 through 23
i Minutes with leading zeros 00 to 59
I (capital i) Whether or not the date is in daylights savings time 1 if Daylight Savings Time, 0 otherwise.
j Day of the month without leading zeros 1 to 31
l (lowercase 'L') A full textual representation of the day of the week Sunday through Saturday
L Whether it's a leap year 1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise.
m Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros 01 through 12
M A short textual representation of a month, three letters Jan through Dec
n Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros 1 through 12
r RFC 822 formatted date Example: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200
s Seconds, with leading zeros 00 through 59
S English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j
t Number of days in the given month 28 through 31
T Timezone setting of this machine Examples: EST, MDT ...
U Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)  
w Numeric representation of the day of the week 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)
W ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year)
Y A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits Examples: 1999 or 2003
y A two digit representation of a year Examples: 99 or 03
z The day of the year 0 through 366
Z Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive. -43200 through 43200