This page is a reference for use when setting up an ONIX template. For example, entering snowbooks_[%j%Y].xml into the File name pattern field produces files named like snowbooks_0112015.xml.

ONIX file name pattern options

Type Code Meaning
Date (Year, Month, Day): %Y Year with century
%C Century: year / 100 rounded down. (20 in 2009)
%y year % 100 (00..99)
%m Month of the year, zero-padded (01..12)
%_m blank-padded ( 1..12)
%-m no-padded (1..12)
%B The full month name (January)
%b The abbreviated month name (Jan)
%d Day of the month, zero-padded (01..31)
%-d no-padded (1..31)
%e Day of the month, blank-padded ( 1..31)
%j Day of the year (001..366)
Time (Hour, Minute, Second): %H Hour of the day, 24-hour clock, zero-padded (00..23)
%k Hour of the day, 24-hour clock, blank-padded ( 0..23)
%I Hour of the day, 12-hour clock, zero-padded (01..12)
%l Hour of the day, 12-hour clock, blank-padded ( 1..12)
%P Meridian indicator, lowercase (am or pm)
%p Meridian indicator, uppercase (AM or PM)
%M Minute of the hour (00..59)
%S Second of the minute (00..59)
Time zone: %z Time zone as hour and minute offset from UTC (e.g. +0900)
%:z hour and minute offset from UTC with a colon (e.g. +09:00)
%::z hour, minute and second offset from UTC (e.g. +09:00:00)
%:::z hour, minute and second offset from UTC (e.g. +09, +09:30, +09:30:30)
%Z Time zone abbreviation name
Weekday: %A The full weekday name (Sunday)
%a The abbreviated name (Sun)
%u Day of the week (Monday is 1, 1..7)
%w Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)
ISO 8601 week-based year and week number %G The week-based year
%g The last 2 digits of the week-based year (00..99)
%V Week number of the week-based year (01..53)
Week number: %U Week number of the year. The week starts with Sunday. (00..53)
%W Week number of the year. The week starts with Monday. (00..53)
Seconds since the Unix Epoch: %s
%s Number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Combination: %c date and time (%a %b %e %T %Y)
%D Date (%m/%d/%y)
%F The ISO 8601 date format (%Y-%m-%d)
%v VMS date (%e-%b-%Y)
%r 12-hour time (%I:%M:%S %p)
%R 24-hour time (%H:%M)
%T 24-hour time (%H:%M:%S)
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