The following is a list of the date formats and separators for *Date data type.

RPG Name	Description	Format (Default Separator)	Valid Separ- ators	Length	Example
4 - Digit    Year Formats
*ISO	International Standards Organization	yyyy-mm-dd	- & 0	10	2007-01-15
*USA	IBM USA Standard	mm/dd/yyyy	/ 0	10	01/15/2007
*EUR	IBM European Standard	dd.mm.yyyy	. 0	10	15.01.2007
*JIS	Japanese Industrial Standard Christian Era	yyyy-mm-dd	- 0	10	2007-01-15
2 - Digit  Year Formats
*MDY	Month/Day/Year	mm/dd/yy	/ - . , & 0	8	01/15/07
*DMY	Day/Month/Year	dd/mm/yy	/ - . , & 0	8	15/01/07
*YMD	Year/Month/Day	yy/mm/dd	/ - . , & 0	8	07/01/15
*JUL	Julian	yy/ddd	/ - . , & 0	6	07/015

The ampersand (&) separator is replaced with a blank character. E.g., *MDY& results in the example date formated as 01 15 07.

The zero (0) separator is replaced with no character. E.g., *MDY0 results in the example date formated as 011507.    

See Also

Date and Time
*HIVAL
*LOVAL
Time Formats
Default Values for all Date Formats  

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