Library: General, Date and time functions (OMDATE) Include: omdate.xin

Return type: String Returns:  The specified date in the indicated format.

Declaration

  define stream function format-ymdhms value stream date-format
                             with-date value stream ymdhms

This function takes a date/time in "YYYYMMDDhhmmss+ZHZM" format and returns it formatted as for the OmniMark date operator.

Arguments:

• "date-format" -- the format in which you want the specified date, given using OmniMark date format modifiers (such as "=Y/=M/=D", etc)
• "ymdhms" -- a date in "YYYYMMDDhhmmss+ZHZM" format.

Example:

  ; Format the date with day and month written out 
    include "omdate.xin"
    process
       output format-ymdhms "Now == =W, =xD =n =xY, =h:=m:=s =a.m. =t%n"
       with-date now-as-ymdhms
  ; Result of this code run on Valentine's Day, 2001:
  ;    Now = Wednesday, 14 February 2001, 04:06:21 p.m. -0500

Other Library Functions    add-to-ymdhms    arpadate-to-ymdhms    format-ymdhms    now-as-ymdhms    round-down-ymdhms    round-up-ymdhms    ymdhms-adjust-time-zone    ymdhms-day-difference    ymdhms-julian-day-count    ymdhms-month-difference    ymdhms-second-difference    ymdhms-to-arpadate    ymd-weekday

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