World Clock Date- and Time Format

Each clock can have either an analog clock (with hands), a digital clock or both - digital clock below the clock face. In the digital clock you can set any format and language you like. The selected language influences the strings for weekday and month, but also the format of the standard time formats, which you can select in the list.

The standard format "dddd, HH:mm" can show different strings not just for the weekday name, but also for the time like shown here:

• English, (United Kingdom): Saturday, 14:55
• English, (USA): Saturday, 2:55 PM
• German: Samstag, 14:55

Since Sharp World Clock is Unicode capable, all Windows system languages can be used and all characters can be displayed. There are 6 standard time format strings provided in the list:

Custom Date-/Time Format

If none of the default format strings fulfills your needs, you can assemble your own time string with a custom format, using any available placeholder as you like:

This string must be assembled by following strict rules - each character can stands for a specific element. You can display a "cheat sheet" by clicking the "?" button on the top right corner of this dialog:

Placeholder	Symbol for	Format
HH	Hour (leading zero)	24 h
H	Hour (no leading zero)	24 h
hh	Hour (leading zero)	12 h
h	Hour (no leading zero)	12 h
mm	Minutes
ss	Seconds
yyyy	Year	4 digits
yy	Year	2 digits
MMMM	Name of Month	long
MMM	Name of Month	short
MM	Number of Month	leading zero
M	Number of Month	no leading zero
dddd	Weekday	long
ddd	Weekday	short
dd	Day of Month	leading zero
d	Day of Month	no leading zero
xx	Week of the Year	(1..52)
xxx	Day of the Year	(1..365)
tt	AM/PM
t	A/P
\	Date Separator
"abc"	Other Characters	(in quotes)