Shorthand Date Formats

Date abbreviations and the corresponding values that are returned to the calling procedure by CAS are summarized in the table below. All dates are returned in DD-MMM-YYYY format.

Abbreviation

Returns

=

Today's date.

+d

Today's date + d days.

-d

Today's date - d days.

d

The dth day of the current month and year.

dd

The ddth day of the current month and year.

ddd

The dddth Julian day of the current year.

ddmm or mmdd

The ddth day of the mmth month of the current year (order depends on national language code).

yyddd

The dddth Julian day of the year yy.

yy.ddd

The dddth Julian day of the year yy.

ddmmyy or mmddyy

The specified date (order depends on national language code).

dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy

The specified date (order depends on national language code). If dd or mm or yy are omitted, then they default to the current day, month or year (for example, entering //96 on the 3rd January 1992 returns 03-JAN-1996).

day-of-week

The date of day-of-week (MON/TUE/WED/THU/FRI/SAT/SUN) in the current week.

+day-of-week

The date of day-of-week in the following week.

-day-of-week

The date of day-of-week in the previous week.


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