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 In time/date mode, the acceptable formats are:

       Format       Explanation
       %a           abbreviated name of day of the week
       %A           full name of day of the week
       %b or %h     abbreviated name of the month
       %B           full name of the month
       %d           day of the month, 1--31
       %D           shorthand for "%m/%d/%y"
       %H or %k     hour, 0--24
       %I or %l     hour, 0--12
       %j           day of the year, 1--366
       %m           month, 1--12
       %M           minute, 0--60
       %p           "am" or "pm"
       %r           shorthand for "%I:%M:%S %p"
       %R           shorthand for %H:%M"
       %S           second, 0--60
       %T           shorthand for "%H:%M:%S"
       %U           week of the year (week starts on Sunday)
       %w           day of the week, 0--6 (Sunday = 0)
       %W           week of the year (week starts on Monday)
       %y           year, 0-99
       %Y           year, 4-digit

 Except for the non-numerical formats, these may be preceded by a "0" ("zero",
 not "oh") to pad the field length with leading zeroes, and a positive digit,
 to define the minimum field width (which will be overridden if the specified
 width is not large enough to contain the number).  There is a 24-character
 limit to the length of the printed text; longer strings will be truncated.

 Examples:

 Suppose the text is "76/12/25 23:11:11".  Then
       set format x                 # defaults to "12/25/76" \n "23:11"
       set format x "%A, %d %b %Y"  # "Saturday, 25 Dec 1976"
       set format x "%r %d"         # "11:11:11 pm 12/25/76"

 Suppose the text is "98/07/06 05:04:03".  Then
       set format x "%1y/%2m/%3d %01H:%02M:%03S"  # "98/ 7/  6 5:04:003"