Re: [gedit-list] Date format

[Mark Ballard <markjballard googlemail com>]

Avinash, this is brilliant. Thank you.

I see full details of date codes here:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-formatting-dates-for-display/

This one's good (the time's 24hr):

%d %^b %Y - %R -

22 JAN 2013 - 12:05 -

On 19 January 2013 14:05, Avinash Trivedi <avitri73 gmail com> wrote:

On 1/18/13, Mark Ballard <markjballard googlemail com> wrote:

> The Gedit function to insert a date (EDIT > Insert Date and time...) has a
> superb range of date formats. But not, as luck would have it, the one I
> need to use.
>
> My date format needs to be as: 18 JAN 2012
>
> I can't see this in the list. There is a custom format. Is there something
> I can put in the custom field to get the desired result?
>

put this in custom field:

%d %^b %Y