This is an extract from the documentation of Perl's Date::Manip module,
describing the different format strings that may be used for dates.
Bear in mind that depending on your Windows version you will need to
quote the % characters on the command line somehow (see README.win32).

    The format options are:

     Year
         %y     year                     - 00 to 99
         %Y     year                     - 0001 to 9999
         %G     year                     - 0001 to 9999 (see below)
         %L     year                     - 0001 to 9999 (see below)
     Month, Week
         %m     month of year            - 01 to 12
         %f     month of year            - " 1" to "12"
         %b,%h  month abbreviation       - Jan to Dec
         %B     month name               - January to December
         %U     week of year, Sunday
                as first day of week     - 01 to 53
         %W     week of year, Monday
                as first day of week     - 01 to 53
     Day
         %j     day of the year          - 001 to 366
         %d     day of month             - 01 to 31

         %e     day of month             - " 1" to "31"
         %v     weekday abbreviation     - " S"," M"," T"," W","Th"," F","Sa"
         %a     weekday abbreviation     - Sun to Sat
         %A     weekday name             - Sunday to Saturday
         %w     day of week              - 1 (Monday) to 7 (Sunday)
         %E     day of month with suffix - 1st, 2nd, 3rd...
     Hour
         %H     hour                     - 00 to 23
         %k     hour                     - " 0" to "23"
         %i     hour                     - " 1" to "12"
         %I     hour                     - 01 to 12
         %p     AM or PM
     Minute, Second, Timezone
         %M     minute                   - 00 to 59
         %S     second                   - 00 to 59
         %s     seconds from 1/1/1970 GMT- negative if before 1/1/1970
         %o     seconds from Jan 1, 1970
                in the current time zone
         %Z     timezone                 - "EDT"
         %z     timezone as GMT offset   - "+0100"
     Date, Time
         %c     %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y     - Fri Apr 28 17:23:15 1995
         %C,%u  %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %z %Y  - Fri Apr 28 17:25:57 EDT 1995
         %g     %a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z - Fri, 28 Apr 1995 17:23:15 EDT
         %D,%x  %m/%d/%y                 - 04/28/95
         %l     date in ls(1) format
                  %b %e $H:$M            - Apr 28 17:23  (if within 6 months)
                  %b %e  %Y              - Apr 28  1993  (otherwise)
         %r     %I:%M:%S %p              - 05:39:55 PM
         %R     %H:%M                    - 17:40
         %T,%X  %H:%M:%S                 - 17:40:58
         %V     %m%d%H%M%y               - 0428174095
         %Q     %Y%m%d                   - 19961025
         %q     %Y%m%d%H%M%S             - 19961025174058
         %P     %Y%m%d%H%M%S             - 1996102517:40:58
         %F     %A, %B %e, %Y            - Sunday, January  1, 1996
         %J     %G-W%W-%w                - 1997-W02-2
         %K     %Y-%j                    - 1997-045
     Other formats
         %n     insert a newline character
         %t     insert a tab character
         %%     insert a `%' character
         %+     insert a `+' character
     The following formats are currently unused but may be used in the future:
         NO 1234567890 !@#$^&*()_|-=\`[];',./~{}:<>?
     They currently insert the character following the %, but may (and probably
     will) change in the future as new formats are added.

    If a lone percent is the final character in a format, it is ignored.

    Note that the ls format (%l) applies to date within the past OR future 6
    months!

    The %U, %W, %L, and %G formats are used to support the ISO-8601 format:
    YYYY-wWW-D. In this format, a date is written as a year, the week of the
    year, and the day of the week. Technically, the week may be considered
    to start on any day of the week, but Sunday and Monday are the two most
    common choices, so both are supported.

    The %U and %W formats return a week-of-year number from 01 to 53, and %L
    and %G return a 4-digit year corresponding to the week. Most of the
    time, the %L and %G formats returns the same value as the %Y format, but
    there is a problem with days occuring in the first or last week of the
    year.

    The ISO-8601 representation of Jan 1, 1993 written in the YYYY-wWWW-D
    format is actually 1992-W53-5. In other words, Jan 1 is treates as being
    in the last week of the preceding year. Depending on the year, days in
    the first week of a year may belong to the previous year, and days in
    the final week of a year may belong to the next year.

    The %L and %U formats contains the year and week-of-year values treating
    weeks as starting on Sunday. The %G and %W formats are the year and
    week-of-year values treating weeks as starting on Monday.

    %J returns the full ISO-8601 format (%G-W%W-%w).

    The formats used in this routine were originally based on date.pl
    (version 3.2) by Terry McGonigal, as well as a couple taken from
    different versions of the Solaris date(1) command. Also, several have
    been added which are unique to Date::Manip.

