All locales offer both numerical and alphabetical formats for representing a day.
The table below isshows the definitivespecifications guide to how to ensure you do specify justfor the day part of any date specifications. ▼
[[File:Badge vMx.png]]Again, there are extra complications with MX, the "d" modifier is not shown because it is inconsistent, the format it returns depends on which tag name it is used with - see [[#Date formats]] table later! For some tag names it returns just "day of month" (like "%d"), for others it returns the full "Short date format" (like "ddddd")!
▲The table below is the definitive guide to how to ensure you do specify just the day part of any date specifications.
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| d (single character)
| %d
|Displays the day as a number without a leading zero (1-31).
[[File:Badge vMx.png]]Note that Cumulus MX requires a ' ' (space), '%' or another modifier to be included, as 'd' on its own is inconsistent - see [[#Date formats]] table).
| 27 produced by: <#metdate format="%d">
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|dd (2 characters long)
|dd
|Displays the day as a number with a leading zero (01-31).
|07 produced by <#metdate format="dd">
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|ddd (3 characters long)
|ddd
|Displays the day as an abbreviation (inusing Australianthe willstrings output "Sun."appropriate to "Satthe Locale.") usingIt themay stringsproduce appropriatea todot at the Localeend (seeof note for monththe abbreviation)string.
|'Wed' produced by <#metdate format="ddd"> (UK English locale)
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|dddd (4 characters long)
|dddd
|Displays the day as a full name (Sunday-Saturday) using the strings appropriate to the Locale.
|'Friday' produced by <#metdate format="dddd"> (English locale)
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