^FC — Field Clock

Sets the clock-indicator characters that print the Real-Time Clock's date and time inside a field.

What it does

^FC has to appear in every field that prints a date or time. In the ^FD that follows, the indicator plus a command character is replaced at print time: %d day, %m month, %y / %Y year, %H hour (24 h), %I hour (12 h), %M minute, %S second, %p AM/PM, %A / %a weekday name, %B / %b month name, %j day of the year.

The secondary and third indicators print the clocks offset with ^SO. Without Real-Time Clock hardware ^FC is ignored and the characters print as plain text. Since firmware V60.13.0.10 ^FC also works together with ^SN.

In the preview

Labelixa's preview draws this command.

Example

^XA
^FO10,25^AD^FC%,{,#
^FDDate: %d/%m/%Y %H:%M^FS
^XZ

Prints the current day, month, four-digit year, hour and minute from the primary clock.

Parameters

Source

Zebra ZPL II Programming Guide (P1134473-11EN Rev A), page 189. Zebra guide page →

Related commands

^SL · ^SO · ^ST · ^KD · ^SN · ^FD

ZPL commands list and reference →

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