Formats the supplied date using the specified formatting options.
Visual Basic Syntax
strValue = oXTLRuntime.formatDate(varDate, bstrFormat, varDestLocale)
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT formatDate(
VARIANT varDate,
BSTR bstrFormat,
VARIANT varDestLocale,
BSTR *pbstrFormattedString);
Parameters
varDate
[in]
Date that is to be formatted.
bstrFormat
[in]
Formatting specifics. The following codes are supported:
| m | Months as 1-12 |
| mm | Months as 01-12 |
| mmm | Months as Jan-Dec |
| mmmm | Months as January-December |
| mmmmm | Months as the first letter of the month |
| d | Days as 1-31 |
| dd | Days as 01-31 |
| ddd | Days as Sun-Sat |
| dddd | Days as Sunday-Saturday |
| yy | Years as 00-99 |
| yyyy | Years as 1900-9999 |
varDestLocale
[in]
Locale to use in determining the correct sequence to be used in the date. If not supplied, the month-day-year sequence is used.
pbstrFormattedString
[out]
String containing the date in the requested format.
C/C++ Return Value
Returns S_OK if successful, or an error code otherwise.