10 8 5 AsDisplayString

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10.8.5 AsDisplayString

AsDisplayString returns the supplied date formatted using one of the available supplied date formats

Input Parameters

Format - Required format of the data. Note that the month is multilingual. SYSFMT dates are in operating system format.

Available formats, and the resulting display string are listed below. Examples use a date of 2004-12-31.

See
Note

Format

Display String

 

CCYYDDMM

20043112

 

CCYYMM

200412

 

CCYYMMDD

20041231

 

CCYYsDDsMM

2004/31/12

 

CCYYsMMsDD

2004/12/31

 

Fri

Fri

 

DDDDDDDDD

Friday

 

DDMMCCYY

31122004

 

DDMMMCCYY

31Dec2004

 

DDMMMYY

31Dec04

 

DDMMYY

311204

 

DDsMMsCCYY

31/12/2004

 

DDsMMsYY

31/12/04

 

DDXXbMMMMMMMMMbCCYY

31st December 2004

 

DDXXbMMMMMMMMMbYY

31st December 04

 

ISO

2004-12-31

1

ML_DDDDDDDDD

Friday

1

ML_DDbMMMMMMMMMbYY

31 December 04

1

ML_DDbMMMMMMMMMbCCYY

31 December 2004

 

MMCCYY

122004

 

MMDDCCYY

12312004

 

MMDDYY

123104

1

MMMMMMMMMM

December

 

MMsDDsCCYY

12/31/2004

 

MmsDDsYY

12/31/04

 

MMYY

1204

 

SYSFMT6

311204

 

SYSFMT8

31122004

 

XYYMMDD

20043112

 

YYMM

0412

 

YYMMDD

041231

 

YysMMsDD

04/12/31

 

 

Example

#Com_owner.Caption := #Today.AsDisplayString(DDMMCCYY)

 

Also see

Date Format

Ý 10.8 Date Intrinsic Functions