I would like to get today's date in the following format: mmddyyyy.
Even if it's first of August I still want zeros in front, like so: 08012012.
I think I can use DatePart function for it, but I am not sure how.
Anyone has an idea?
Thanks.
You do not say which application, but in VBA, you can say:
Format(date(),"mmddyyyy")
Application.Text(Date(),"mmddyyyy")
Format(NOW,"mmddyyyy")
NOW gives time as well:
Format(NOW,"hh:mm:ss")
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I am trying to find out how to change my get date into the format of ccmmdd?
So far the closest iv come is ccyymmdd with:
CONVERT(VARCHAR(8),GETDATE(),112)
This produces 20140505, What i'm looking for is 140505.
Is there a link i can follow to see the different sql date formats, or would this be best done through string manipulation?
Try this:
CONVERT(VARCHAR(8),GETDATE(),12)
The list of available formats can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx
This also works.
RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),GETDATE(),112),6)
I Have been playing with variations of the Month... function in access query builder. I am having trouble building a date value from an expression. I am looking to create my own date that will be behind the scenes to perform some filtering and other tasks. My problem is that I cant seem to get the Month(number) function to do what I think it should be doing. Here is a summary of what I am looking for.
5/31/2012
Through something like this
DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(5),Day(31))
Also
DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month("5"),Day("31"))
When I try these as an experssion the return is
1/30/2012
Im sure I am misunderstanding the structure. Please educate me.
DateSerial requires three integers, year, month, day:
DateSerial(1992,5,2)
02/05/1992 ''Euro locale
Year(Date()) returns an integer, so you can substitute:
DateSerial(Year(Date()),5,31)
Interestingly, the zeroth day is the last day of the previous month:
DateSerial(2012,12,0)=30/11/2012
-- http://office.microsoft.com/en-ie/access-help/HV080206953.aspx
As an aside, do not forget that all dates are numbers.
Month(5) will equal 1, but Month(41263)=12 !
Also
?month(100)
4
?Year(100)
1900
I am trying to take the following value and making it into a date format of dd-MMM-yy
For example: 110412 turns into 04-NOV-12
My formula as of right now is:
(CONCATENATE(MID(E14,3,2),"-",(TEXT(LEFT(E14,2),"MMM")),"-",RIGHT(E14,2)))
It is giving me 04-Jan-12.
Please note that I would like the month to be in all caps.
Try using the "UPPER(foo)" function as a wrapper to make the result all caps.
UPPER((CONCATENATE(MID(E14,3,2),"-",(TEXT(LEFT(E14,2),"MMM")),"-",RIGHT(E14,2))))
or better still:
=MID(E14,3,2)&"-"&UPPER(TEXT(DATE(MID(E14,5,2),MID(E14,1,2),MID(E14,3,2)),"MMM"))&"-"&RIGHT(E14,2)
I have had a quick look around and I can't find an answer to this in vb.net or something that I can convert into vb.net.
I have two DateTimes in vb.net's 'Date' class. I would like to find the difference between these in seconds. I can do a-b, but the answer will still be a 'date'. I can use .seconds .minutes etc. and multiply but I will hit problems when I come to months.
Is there a simple way to do this, or do I need to write some elaborate-ish code?
Many Thanks
Subtract the DateTime values from each other - the returned type will be a TimeSpan.
Get the TotalSeconds value from it.
(date1 - date2).TotalSeconds
There actually is also a function made for this DateDiff(DateInterval.Second, d1, d2)
How about something like
Dim secs As Double = DateTime.Today.Subtract(DateTime.Today.AddDays(-1)).TotalSeconds
Look at DateTime.Subtract Method (DateTime) and TimeSpan.TotalSeconds Property
Hey, I have a report parameter which looks like this: 01.01.2009 00:00:00
Its a date (as string), as you might have guessed :). The problem is, this param can be an empty string as well. So I tried those expressions:
=IIf(IsDate(Parameters!DateTo.Value), CDate(Parameters!DateTo.Value), "")
=IIf(Len(Parameters!DateTo.Value) > 0, CDate(Parameters!DateTo.Value), "")
Both dont work and the value for the textfield where I print the expressions result is always #Error. As soon as I remove the CDate stuff, it works, but I have to use it. IS there another way to achieve that? What I want is to display nothing if its not a date or the date (format dd.mm.yyyy) if its a date.
Ideas?
Thanks :)
All arguments to the IIf are evaluated, which results in your error, since the CDate will fail for an empty string.
You can get around this by just writting a function along these lines, using a standard if statement:
Function FormatDate(ByVal s As String) As String
If (s <> "") Then
Return CDate(s).ToString()
Else
Return ""
End If
End Function
Then call it with: =Code.FormatDate(Parameters!DateTo.Value)
First, fix your database to properly store dates rather than doing these workarounds. You probably have bad data in there as well (Feb 30 2010 for example or my favorite, ASAP). Truly there is no excuse for not fixing this at the database level where it needs to be fixed except if this is vendor provided software that you can't change (I would yell at them though, well notify them really, and ask them to fix their data model or go to a new product designed by someone who knows what they are doing. A vendor who can't use dates properly is likely to have software that is very poor all around).
In the query that you use to select the infomation, have you considered just converting all non-dates to null?