The format picture for a date string consists of a combination of null-terminated strings.
Day | |
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d | Day of the month as digits without leading zeros for single digit days. |
dd | Day of the month as digits with leading zeros for single digit days |
ddd | Day of the week as a 3-letter abbreviation as given by a LOCALE_SABBREVDAYNAME value. |
dddd | Day of the week as given by a LOCALE_SDAYNAME value. |
Month | |
M | Month as digits without leading zeros for single digit months. |
MM | Month as digits with leading zeros for single digit months |
MMM | Month as a three letter abbreviation as given by a LOCALE_SABBREVMONTHNAME value. |
MMMM | Month as given by a LOCALE_SMONTHNAME value. |
Year | |
y | Year represented only be the last digit. |
yy | Year represented only be the last two digits. |
yyyy | Year represented by the full 4 digits. |
Period/Era | |
gg | Period/era string as given by the CAL_SERASTRING value. The gg format picture in a date string is ignored if there is no associated era string. |