Overview of Date Functions

The following explains the difference between the types of date functions:

Date formats have an internal representation matching either numeric or alphanumeric format. For example, A6MDY matches alphanumeric format, YYMD and I6DMY match numeric format. When function output is a date in specified by output, it can be used either for assignment to another date field of this format, or it can be used for further data manipulation in the expression with data of matching formats. Assignment to another field of a different date format, will yield a random result.

All but three date functions deal with only one date format. The exceptions are DATECVT, HCNVRT, and HDATE, which convert one date type into another.


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