Dates comes to me as strings like that '19901226'. But my db waits for '26.12.1990'. How to change it? I know that I need regular expression but never worked with them.
I find it odd that your database expects a non ISO format date, but here goes:
echo date_create_from_format("Ymd","19901226")->format("d.m.Y");
Echos:
26.12.1990
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I have default parameter and this parameter shows me 7 days ago with the expression below:
=DateAdd("d",-7,CDate(Format(Today(), "MM/dd/yyyy")))
But my report just running without error while the customer using "MM/dd/yyyy" time format.
Is there a way to use this parameter ALSO with "dd/MM/yyyy" format?
I would like to set a parameter to show 7 days ago but ı would like to use this parameter with both time format.
Thanks
Don't use the Format. Just put =DateAdd("d",-7,Today()). It will automatically take the Format according to System's format.
Firstly, the format part of your expression is redundant and misleading - don't use it
=DateAdd("d",-7,Today())
Secondly, you don't have any choice of how SSRS displays it's datepickers. It shows american format only (M/d/Y)
A date is a value and values do not have a format. A date is displayed and has to be entered in a format that depends on the language settings of your browser. Using a date picker, you even don't have to care about the input format. So, just use an expression that calculates the desired value:
=Today.AddDays(-7)
In Google Sheets, I need to create a date in the following format:
2016-06-15T12:00-0800/2016-10-16T12:00-0800
(Yesterday's date / today's date + 120 days)
Using =NOW()-1, I get yesterday's date.
Using Format - Date - More - Year(1930)-Month(05)-Day(01)T:Hour(01):00-0800, I get the proper format for the 1st part of the date range (2016-06-15T12:00-0800).
Repeating the same process with =NOW()+120.
Got the 2nd part of the date range (2016-10-16T12:00-0800).
PROBLEM: Trying to =CONCATENATE(A2,"/",B2), results in this:
42901.6965777315/43022.6965777315
...and no matter what I do - change the format, try to use =CONCATENATE(=TEXT(A2),"/",=TEXT(B2)), or other tricks I know, I either get a blank cell, an error message, or an even worse mess.
All I want is to combine 2 date cells into 1, with a slash in between. How can this be accomplished?
Try join instead of concatenate:
=join("/",A1,B1)
Maybe:
=text(now()-1,"yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm")&"-0800/"&text(now()+120,"yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm")&"-0800"
TEXT with only a date as argument returns the serial number corresponding to that date,
First you should confer the result of you formulas that involves NOW to a formatted text by using TEXT with the second argument. Then you could concatenate the result of that.
The above be donde on a single formula but you maybe should start by doing each step on separate cells in order to make it easy to check the result of each part.
In an Access form, I need to use the date output from a date picker field to be used to search for a file in a form. However, the default data format seems to only allow slashes. Although I know the date is being stored as a number in the database.
Put simply, I need Me.myDate to output a legal file name structure, for example, yy-mm-dd. Then I can concatenate that with my file name to search for myfilename_yy-mm-dd
I always get myfilename_yy/mm/dd which is of course unusable as a file name.
Changing the format of the field obviously makes no difference to how the value is stored. What I don't understand is if the date is stored as a number, and the output is shown in the selected format, how I can override the default formatting behaviour used when I query the date.
The Format Function will allow you to format the date as you wish.
An expression to include the formatted date in a filename pattern could look like this ...
"myfilename_" & Format(Me.myDate, "yy-mm-dd") & "*"
As an absolute beginner to SAS I quickly ran into problems with date formatting.
I have a dataset containing transaction with three types of dates: BUSDATE, SPOTDATE, MATURITY. Each transaction is represented on two lines, and I want BUSDATE and SPOTDATE from line 1 but MATURITY from line 2.
In the original set, the dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format.
DATA masterdata;
SET sourcedata(rename(BUSDATE=BUSDATE2 SPOTDATE=SPOTDATE2 MATURITY=MATURITY2));
BUSDATE=BUSDATE2;
SPOTDATE=SPOTDATE2;
IF TRANS_TYPE='Swap' THEN;
MATURITY=SPOTDATE;
RUN;
Problem is, this returns something like 17169 (which I guess is the number of days from a certain date).
How can I make it output in YYYY-MM-DD format - or is this approach wrong; should I first convert the date variables to some SAS date format?
if you have valid SAS dates, just add a FORMAT statement to your DATA STEP.
Format busdate spotdate maturity yymmdd10. ;
SAS dates are numeric variables. They represent the number of days since 1/1/1960. You use a FORMAT to display dates.
Adding to CarolinaJay's answer, you normally want to keep them as numeric format, since you can do math (like "# of days since date X") with them. However, if for some reason you need a character variable, you can do this:
date_As_char=put(datevar,YYMMDD10.);
Incidentally, YYMMDD10 will actually give you YYYY-MM-DD, as you asked for; if you want a different separator, see http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000589916.htm (YYMMDDxw. format) - if you put a letter after the last D, for certain letters, you get a different separator. Like, YYMMDDn10. gives you no separator, or YYMMDDs10. gives you slashes. YYMMDDd10. gives you dashes, just like omitting the letter would. This concept also applies to MMDDYY formats, and I think a few others.
I've been playing with MIT AppInventor and attempted to calculate a duration between two dates.
I take date values from two text fields. Clock.MakeInstant says it's only able to accept dates in MM/DD/YYYY format so I was careful to do that. Still, when I attempt to feed them into MakeInstant it always pops the same message about being able to only accept MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss or MM/DD/YYYY or hh:mm. I printed entered text values before passing them to MakeInstant to confirm that they are not somehow corrupted and they are fine -- each just a date in MM/DD/YYYY format.
I have no idea what else to try. As far as I can tell I followed the instructions to the letter. Any examples on how to pass a date as text to Clock.MakeInstant?
see this screenshot source: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/app-inventor-shared-utilities-repository/3bA4wczU9pU/discussion
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