Date.strftime

Generates a printed representation of the date, in a localesetlocale-specific way. Works just like the platform's C library strftime() function, but only accepts date-related formats; time-related formats give undefined results. Date must be valid. Unlike strftime() (which uses the locale encoding), works on a UTF-8 format string and stores a UTF-8 result.

This function does not provide any conversion specifiers in addition to those implemented by the platform's C library. For example, don't expect that using glib.date.Date.strftime would make the \F provided by the C99 strftime() work on Windows where the C library only complies to C89.

struct Date
string
strftime
(
string format
)

Parameters

format string

format string

Return Value

Type: string

The formatted date string, will be empty if result exceeds 1024 bytes