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Date Format

In the field:
{
expression
Format
format
 }
where
expression
 is a date, the
format
 is interpreted as a list of ingredients where each ingredient either specifies a component value (year, month, day) or is treated as a static character that will always appear.
For example, in the format text:
"dd/mm/yyyy"
the ingredients are:
Ingredient
Description
dd
day component (01-31)
/
static character
mm
month component (01-12)
/
static character
yyyy
year component

Date ingredients

The full list of ingredients for a date value:
Ingredient
Description
yyyy
year component formatted as a 4-digit number
yy
year component formatted as a 2-digit number (00-99)
YYYY
year component formatted as cardinal words (e.g. Two Thousand and Seven)
YTH
year component formatted as ordinal words (e.g. Two Thousand and Seventh)
yth
year component formatted as ordinal digits (e.g. 2007th)
mm
month component formatted as 2 digits (01-12)
m
month component formatted as 1 or 2 digits (1-12)
MM
month component formatted as the full name (e.g. January)
LMM
month component formatted as the full name in lowercase (e.g. january)
UMM
month component formatted as the full name in uppercase (e.g. JANUARY)
M
month component formatted as the abbreviated name (e.g. Jan)
LM
month component formatted as the abbreviated name in lowercase (e.g. jan)
UM
month component formatted as the abbreviated name in uppercase (e.g. JAN)
MO
month ownership (e.g.
of
 as in of April,
d'
 as in d'Avril and
de
 as in de Mai)
dd
day component formatted as 2 digits (01-31)
d
day component formatted as 1 or 2 digits (1-31)
DD
day component formatted as cardinal words (e.g. Thirty One)
LDD
day component formatted as cardinal words in lowercase (e.g. thirty one)
UDD
day component formatted as cardinal words in uppercase (e.g. THIRTY ONE)
DTH
day component formatted as ordinal words (e.g. Thirty First)
LDTH
day component formatted as ordinal words in lowercase (e.g. thirty first)
UDTH
day component formatted as ordinal words in uppercase (e.g. THIRTY FIRST)
dth
day component formatted as ordinal digits (e.g. 31st)
w
week-day component formatted as a single digit (1-7)
WW
week-day component formatted as the full name (e.g. Monday)
LWW
week-day component formatted as the full name in lowercase (e.g. monday)
UWW
week-day component formatted as the full name in uppercase (e.g. MONDAY)
W
week-day component formatted as the abbreviated name (e.g. Mon)
LW
week-day component formatted as the abbreviated name in lowercase (e.g. mon)
UW
week-day component formatted as the abbreviated name in uppercase (e.g. MON)
WTH
week-day component formatted as ordinal words (e.g. First)
LWTH
week-day component formatted as ordinal words in lowercase (e.g. first)
UWTH
week-day component formatted as ordinal words in uppercase (e.g. FIRST)
wth
week-day component formatted as ordinal digits (e.g. 1st)
note
1. The names of months and week-days depend upon the locale setting in
Contract Express Administrator
.
2. If you do not apply a format to a date variable it will use the locale format which is "d MM yyyy" for english_uk and "MM d, yyyy" for english_usa.
3. Date ingredients are case-sensitive, so m is different from M.
4. If you want the letter "d" to be treated as static text, use "^d". This applies to all ingredients, so "^d^t^h" represents the static text "dth".

Synonym formats

The following are synonyms for applied formats:
Synonym
Applied Format
"day_month_year"
"dd/mm/yyyy"
"month_day_year"
"mm/dd/yyyy"
"year_month_day"
"yyyy-mm-dd"

Example 1

The following table gives the result of the expression:
value Format
format
for various date values and format texts.
Value
Format
Return
Date( 2000, 2,29 )
"yyyy-mm-dd"
"2000-02-29"
Date( 2000, 2,29 )
"dd/mm/yyyy"
"29/02/2000"
Date( 2000, 2,9 )
"dd/mm/yyyy"
"09/02/2000"
Date( 2000, 2,9 )
"d/m/yyyy"
"9/2/2000"
Date( 2000, 2,29 )
"the DTH ^day of MM"
"the Twenty Ninth day of February"
Date( 2000, 2,29 )
"the UDTH ^day of UMM"
"the TWENTY NINTH day of FEBRUARY"

Example 2

The expression:
Text( Date( 2000, 2, 29 ), "" )
using the english_uk locale evaluates to:
"29 February 2000"
and using the english_usa locale evaluates to:
"February 29, 2000"