GMTIME -- formatted Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
"format"	format	$day $month $year - $hour:$min

%GMTIME% uses the default date format defined by the {DefaultDateFormat} setting in configure

Supported special format tokens:

Token:	Unit:	Example
$seconds	seconds	59
$minutes	minutes	59
$hours	hours	23
$day	day of month	31
$wday	day of the Week (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)	Thu
$dow	day of the week (Sun = 0)	2
$week	number of week in year (ISO 8601)	34
$month	short name of month	Dec
$mo	2 digit month	12
$year	4 digit year	1999
$ye	2 digit year	99
$tz	either "GMT" (if set to gmtime), or "Local" (if set to servertime)	GMT
$iso	ISO format timestamp	2026-01-14T23:01:10Z
$rcs	RCS format timestamp	2026/01/14 23:01:10
$http	E-mail & http format timestamp	Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:01:10 GMT
$epoch	Number of seconds since 00:00 on 1st January, 1970	1768431670

Tokens can be shortened to 3 characters

Examples

• %GMTIME% expands to 14 Jan 2026 - 23:01
• %GMTIME{"$day $month, $year - $hour:$min:$sec"}% expands to 14 Jan, 2026 - 23:01:10
  When used in a template topic, this macro will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TemplateTopics#TemplateTopicsVars for details.

Related

GMTIME, REVINFO, SERVERTIME