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GMTIME -- formatted Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)

06 August 2023 - 07:24 | Version 1 |

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 2025-02-20T19:06:48Z
$rcs RCS format timestamp 2025/02/20 19:06:48
$http E-mail & http format timestamp Thu, 20 February 2025 19:06:48 GMT
$epoch Number of seconds since 00:00 on 1st January, 1970 1740078408
Tokens can be shortened to 3 characters

Examples

  • %GMTIME% expands to 20 Feb 2025 - 19:06
  • %GMTIME{"$day $month, $year - $hour:$min:$sec"}% expands to 20 February, 2025 - 19:06:48
    ALERT! When used in a template topic, this macro will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TemplateTopics for details.

GMTIME, REVINFO, SERVERTIME
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