Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss content posted by Colin Frame Function to format a datetime variable by a mask RE: Function to format a datetime variable by a mask

  • October 18, 2013 at 9:50 am

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    Agreed, if you can use one of the standard styles.

    The initial triggers for me writing this were a couple of requests that didn't seem to fit in with one of those. Using a mask enables you to define an alternative format e.g. use mask 'YYYYMMDD-hhmi' to get 20131018-1645.

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