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DATEFORMAT.CREATE

Creates a date-format object, which is later used to convert between a date value and a displayable string.

Syntax

<DATEFORMAT.CREATE 
      NAME="format object"
      [LOCALE="locale"]
      [DATESTYLE="style"]
      [TIMESTYLE="style"]
      [TIMEZONEID="zone"] />

Parameters

NAME (required)

Name of the date format object to create.

LOCALE (optional)

Name of the locale object to use for this date-format object. If not specified, the default is the current Locale object.

DATESTYLE (optional)

Style for date. Default is MEDIUM. The possible values are as follows:

• SHORT - Completely numeric, such as 12.13.52.
• MEDIUM - Longer, such as Jan 12, 1952.
• LONG - Longer, such as January 12, 1952.
• FULL - Fully specified, such as Tuesday, April 12, 1952 AD.

TIMESTYLE (optional)

Style for time. Default is MEDIUM. The legal values are as follows:

• medium - (Default) Completely numeric, such as 3:30:42pm.
• full - Fully specified, such as 3:30:42pm PST. The timezone will only be appended if it is specified by the timezoneid attribute.

TIMEZONEID (optional)

TimeZoneID for the DateFormat object. See TimeZoneID Numbers for a list of ID numbers.

errno

None.

Release Introduced

This tag was introduced in CS release 5.0.

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