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Date Field Formats

Restriction: This topic applies only when the AppMaster Builder AddPack has been installed, and applies only to Windows platforms.

Valid mask characters

Valid mask characters are Y (year), M (month), D (day), and special characters.

Default input and output format

MM.DD.YY The field length determines if the special characters are assigned. For example, if you select the MM/DD/YY format, and the field length is 8, then AMB assigns MM/DD/YY to the field; if the field length is 6, AMB assigns MMDDYY to the field.

Restrictions

Y

2 or 4 characters
2 Ys indicate a numeric year, such as 14
4 Ys indicate a numeric century and year, such as 2014

M

2, 3, or 9 characters
2 Ms indicate a numeric month, such as 12
3 Ms indicate a short character month, such as DEC
9 Ms indicate a long character month, such as DECEMBER

D

3 characters if you do not define Month, otherwise it must be 2 characters
2 Ds indicate a numeric Gregorian day, such as 30
3 Ds indicate a numeric Julian day, such as 360

Month, day, and year must be in the same order in both the input and output formats. For example:

Storage Format	YYYYMMDD
Input Format	MMDDYY
Output Format	MMMMMMMMM DD, YYYY