The convert_date_time
method converts date and time formats using standard IDOL formats. All date and time input is treated as local time unless it contains explicit time zone information.
The InputFormatCSV
and OutputFormat
arguments specify date and time formats, and accept the following values:
AUTNDATE
. The HPE date format (1 to a maximum of 10 digits). This format covers the epoch range (1 January 1970 to 19 January 2038) to a resolution of one second, and dates between 30 October 1093 BC and 26 October 3058 to a resolution of one minute.date formats that you specify using one or more of the following:
YY
|
Year (2 digits). For example, 99, 00, 01 and so on. |
YYYY
|
Year (4 digits). For example, 1999, 2000, 2001 and so on. |
#YY+
|
Year (2 or 4 digits). If you provide 2 digits, then it uses the For example, it interprets |
#Y
|
Year (1 to a maximum of 16 digits) and can be followed by AD or BC . An apostrophe (' ) immediately before the year denotes a truncated year. For example, 2008 , '97 (interpreted as 1997 ), 97 (interpreted as 97 AD ), '08 (interpreted as 2008 ), 2008 AD and 200 BC . A truncated year with a BC identifier is invalid ('08 BC ). |
#FULLYEAR
|
Year (1 to a maximum of 16 digits). For example 8 , 98 , 108 , 2008 , each of which is taken literally. The year is taken relative to the common EPOCH (0AD). |
#ADBC
|
Time Period. For example, The only exception to this is when you use both HPE recommends you use only |
LONGMONTH
|
A long month, for example, January , February and so on. |
SHORTMONTH
|
A short month, for example, Jan , Feb and so on. |
MM
|
Month (2 digits). For example, 01 , 10 , 12 and so on. |
M+
|
Month (1 or 2 digits). For example, 1 ,2 ,3 ,10 and so on. |
DD
|
Day (2 digits). For example, 01 , 02 , 03 , 12 , 23 and so on. |
D+
|
Day (1 or 2 digits). For example, 1 , 2 , 12 , 13 , 31 and so on. |
LONGDAY
|
2 digits with a postfix. For example, 1st , 2nd and so on. |
HH
|
Hour (2 digits). For example, 01 , 12 , 13 and so on. |
H+
|
Hour (1 or 2 digits). |
NN
|
Minute (2 digits). |
N+
|
Minute (1 or 2 digits). |
SS
|
Second (2 digits). |
S+
|
Second (1 or 2 digits). |
ZZZ
|
Time Zone, for example, GMT , EST , PST , and so on. |
ZZZZZ
|
Time Difference (1 to 9 digits). For example, +04 denotes 4 hours ahead of UTC. Other examples include +4, +04, +0400, +0400 MSD (the string MSD is ignored). A further example is +030, in this case the time differences is interpreted as 30 minutes. |
#PM
|
AM or PM indicator (2 characters). For example, 2001/09/09 02:46:40 pm |
#S
|
A space |
The following table shows some example date and time formats:
Date and time format string | Example date |
---|---|
DD/MM/YYYY
|
09/05/2013 |
D+ SHORTMONTH YYYY
|
2 Jan 2001 |
D+ LONGMONTH YYYY HH:NN:SS ZZZZZ
|
17 August 2003 10:41:07 -0400 |
convert_date_time( Input, InputFormatCSV, OutputFormat )
Argument | Description |
---|---|
Input
|
(string) The date and time to convert. |
InputFormatCSV
|
(string) A comma-separated list of the possible date and time formats of the input. |
OutputFormat
|
(string) The format of the date and time to output. |
(String). A string containing the date and time in the desired format.
|