Working With Date and Time Data in Recital

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Working With Date and Time Data in Recital

Date and Time Conversion Functions

See Also

Certain SET COMMANDS change the date format: SET CENTURY, SET DATE, SET EPOCH and SET MARK.

Table of Contents

  • ctod() - perform character to date conversion
  • ctot() - perform character to datetime conversion
  • date() - perform numeric year,month,day to date conversion
  • datetime() - perform numeric year,month,day to datetime conversion
  • days() - perform numeric seconds to numeric whole days conversion
  • dmy() - perform date to character (DMY) conversion
  • dtoc() - perform date to character conversion
  • dtom() - perform date to string (DD-Mmm-YYYY) conversion
  • dtos() - perform date to string conversion
  • mdy() - perform date to character (MDY) conversion
  • mtod() - perform string (DD-Mmm-YYYY) to date conversion
  • stod() - perform string to date conversion
  • tstring() - perform numeric seconds to time string conversion
  • ttoc() - perform datetime to string conversion
  • ttod() - perform datetime to date conversion

Miscellaneous Date and Time Functions

See Also

Certain SET COMMANDS change the date format: SET CENTURY, SET DATE, SET EPOCH and SET MARK.

Table of Contents

  • ampm() - return 12-hour clock time as a character string followed by "am" or "pm"
  • cdow() - return the character day of week from a date or datetime
  • cmonth() - return the character month from a date or datetime
  • date() - return the system date as a date
  • datetime() - return the system date and time as a datetime
  • day() - return the numeric day of the month from a date or datetime
  • dow() - return the numeric day of the week from a date or datetime
  • elaptime() - return time difference between two time strings as a time string
  • epoch() - return the current SET EPOCH setting
  • gomonth() - return a date a specified number of months before or after a date or datetime
  • hour() - return the numeric hours from a datetime
  • hours() - return the numeric hours from a time string
  • minute() - return the numeric minutes from a datetime
  • minutes() - return the numeric minutes from a time string
  • month() - return the numeric month from a date or datetime
  • quarter() - return the numeric year quarter from a date or datetime
  • sec() - return the numeric seconds from a datetime
  • seconds() - return the numeric seconds from the current time or a time string
  • secs() - return the numeric seconds from a time string
  • time() - return the system time as a time string
  • timestamp() - return the system date and time
  • validtime() - check the validity of a time string
  • week() - return the numeric week from a date or datetime
  • year() - return the numeric year from a specified date or datetime

Summary