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FORMAT DATE$
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
Field of Application Statement for specifying the format of the string returned by DATE$("F")
and DATEADD$(..... ,"F") instructions.
Syntax FORMAT DATE$
is a string representing the order between year, month and
date plus possible separating characters.
“Y“ represents Year (one digit per Y)
“M” represents Month (one digit per M)
“D” represents Day (one digit per D)
Default: YYMMDD
Reset to default by: Empty string ("")
Remarks DATE$ and DATEADD$ will only return formatted dates if these functionss
include the flag "F".
In the FORMAT DATE$ statement, each Y, M or D character generates one
digit from the number of the year, month or day respectively, starting from
the end. If the number of Y:s exceeds 4, or the number of M.s or D:s exceeds
2, the exceeding characters generate leading space characters.
Examples (the year is 1999):
Y generates 9
YY generates 99
YYY generates 999
YYYY generates 1999
YYYYY generates _1999 (_ represents a space character)
Separating characters are returned as entered in the string. Any character but
Y, M, or D are regarded as separators.
The date format is saved in the temporary memory and has to be transmitted
to the printer after each power-up.
Examples Changing the date format according to British standard:
FORMAT DATE$ "DD/MM/YY"
Changing date format back to default (YYMMDD):
FORMAT DATE$ ""
Changing the date format to Swedish standard:
FORMAT DATE$ "YY-MM-DD"
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