Date Masks

Date masks will always will fill the positions for day and month, so January is “01” January 5th is “01-05”. The separator between day, month and year is always “-” (if the mask is “##/##/##” the mask is changed to “##-##-##”.

• date1 mask “##-##-##”  — this is the default format for dates with no mask.
  • January 5, 2013 prints    01-05-13
  • October 30, 2013 prints    10-30-13
• date1 mask “##-##-####” — the 4 “####” indicates that the year is 4 digits.
  • February 20, 2013 prints    02-20-2013
  • November 10, 2013 prints    11-10-2013
• date1 mask “######” — without a separator, the date is month, day, year.
  • January 10, 2013 prints    011013
• date1 mask “########” — without a separator, but with 8 digits means full 4 digit year.
  • January 10, 2013 prints    01102013
• date1 month year mask “##-####” — the modifiers month and year sets the fields in the mask.
  • March 10, 2013 prints    03-2013
• date1 month year mask “######” — even without the separator, with the modifiers the mask is determined.
  • January 15, 2013 prints    012013
• date1 year month mask “######” — and the opposite
  • January 15, 2013 prints    201301
• date1 year month day mask “########”
  • January 15, 2013 prints    20130115
• date1 year month mask “####-##”
  • January 15, 2013 prints    2013-01
• date1 year mask “##”
  • January 15, 2013 prints    13
• date1 year mask “####”
  • January 15, 2013 prints    2013

 

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Page 1 — mask
Page 2 — the asterisk
Page 3 — numeric masks
Page 4 — decimal masks
Page 5 — date mask