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{{Template:Version badge Mx}}{{Version badge 1}}This Wiki page applies to both flavours of Cumulus currently available.
 
=Introduction=
 
== Forum reference ==
 
Steve Loft published a table showing comparison between output date modifiers for Cumulus 1 and MX at [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=17888 Cumulus MX forum]. The table there was based on the table that wasappeared originallyin createdthis Wiki when only the original Cumulus existed, so it was designed to help people migrate to his MX beta, it was not intended as a definitive list of what modifiers were available for MX (Steve instructed people to look them up on some Microsoft sites).
 
The subsequent comments in the forum suggested his layout got people confused. Most of that confusion came in two circumstances:
*When someone wanted to use one date or time modifier on its own
*When someone who had been using Cumulus 1 swapped to MX and wanted to replace a combination of output modifier characters that was not explicitly shown in his table.
 
That all comes from the fact that when a MX modifier consists of a single character it can mean something different to when it appears with other characters.
 
That all comes from the fact that when a MX modifier consists of a single character it can mean something different to when it appears with other characters. In Cumulus 1, "m" or "M" meanthad somethingtwo differentmeanings whendepending whether it was combined with "H" or "h" (when it represented minutes), butor inon allits own or with any other contextscode (when it represented month). But for Cumulus 1, there is no other case where it matters what context a modifier is put in by the use of other modifiers, and no other modifier takes more than one meaning.▼
 
In MX it is much more complicated, to take a few examples "D", "H", "M" represent different items on their own to what they represent when combined with other characters. That other character can be as simple as using a space or a "%" whichto modify the meaning of the character. ▼
▲That all comes from the fact that when a MX modifier consists of a single character it can mean something different to when it appears with other characters. In Cumulus 1, "m" or "M" meant something different when it was combined with "H" or "h" (when it represented minutes), but in all other contexts it represented month. But for Cumulus 1, there is no other case where it matters what context a modifier is put in by the use of other modifiers, and no other modifier takes more than one meaning.
 
Looking at the tables, now included above, you can see "G" is used on its own because it represents a full date-time specifier. "D" is similarly used on its own represents the long date format. If we only want the day of month number we must use "%d" to avoid the meaning of short date format that "d" on its own represents.
▲In MX it is much more complicated, to take a few examples "D", "H", "M" represent different items on their own to what they represent when combined with other characters. That other character can be as simple as a space or a "%" which modify the meaning of the character.
 
Looking at the tables, now included above, you can see "G" is used on its own because it represents a full date-time specifier. "D" is similarly used on its own represents the long date format. If we only want the day of month number we must use "%d" to avoid the meaning of short date format that "d" on its own represents. If we want the typical Cumulus date-stamp of day of month number and month, then we have two choices, because both "d M" and "M" will both work. becauseThis illustrates how "M" has a different meaning on its own and with another modifier.
 
Hopefully, the way that information is now presented on this page makes any use of parameters for web tags much easier now.
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