At a Glance

The Date type in 32 bit format contains the following information:

  • the year coded in a 16-bit field (4 most significant half-bytes)

  • the month coded in an 8-bit field (2 half bytes)

  • the day coded in an 8-bit field (2 least significant half bytes)

Representation in BCD format of the date 2001-09-20:

Year (2001)

Month (09)

Day (20)

0010 0000 0000 0001

0000 1001

0010 0000

Syntax Rules

The Date type is entered as follows: D#<Year>-<Month>-<Day>

This table shows the lower/upper limits in each field.

Field

Limits

Comment

Year

[1990,2099]

  

Month

[01,12]

The left 0 is always displayed, but can be omitted at the time of entry

Day

[01,31]

For the months 01\03\05\07\08\10\12

[01,30]

For the months 04\06\09\11

[01,29]

For the month 02 (leap years)

[01,28]

For the month 02 (non leap years)

Example:

Entry

Comments

D#2001-1-1

The left 0 of the month and the day can be omitted

d#1990-02-02

The prefix can be written in lower case