Date Format - Fields

 

Date Format

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Order

Select an order option.

  • Select MDY to use an order of month, date, year.

  • Select DMY to use an order of date, month, year.

  • Select YMD to use an order of year, month, date.

 

Day of Week

Select the day-of-the-week format. You can also select the separator character or characters to follow the day description.

  • Select Long to use the full name for the day of the week.

  • Select Short to use the abbreviation for the day of the week.

  • Select None if you do not want to include the day of the week.

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Selection

Example

Long

Friday

Short

Fri

 

Month

Select the month format.

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Select....

To....

1

display a one-digit month format

01

display a two-digit month format.

Jan

display a three-character description.

January

display the entire name of the month.

None

not display the month at all.

 

Day

Select the day format.

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Select....

To....

1

display a one-digit day format.

01

display a two-digit day format.

None

not display the day at all.

 

Year

Select the year format.

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Select....

To....

98

display a two-digit year format.

1998

display a four-digit year format.

None

not display the year at all.

 

 

Separators

Type the separator character or characters for the first and second segment of the date. You can use any printable characters up to 15 characters.