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Changing Date Format Using PeopleCode

Tue, 08/05/2008 - 5:29am — aryadav
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Peoplesoft provides a function called as "DateTimeToLocalizedString" to change date from one format into another.

Following is syntax used to achiev this.

DateTimeToLocalizedString({datetime | date}, [Pattern])

Param1 : Variable of Date Datatype
Param2 : Date format which you want for example "dd/MM/yyyy".

If you have Param1 of type string then use function "DateValue" to convert that string to Date.

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Fri, 08/29/2008 - 3:09pm
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Re: Changing Date and Date time formate example

Here is an example on how we can apply the above function.

%date in as 2008-08-29 out as 20080829:

&date = DateTimeToLocalizedString(%Date, "yyyyMMdd");

%Datetime in as 2008-08-19-17.12.09.000000 out as 20080828-171209:

&datetime = DateTimeToLocalizedString(%Datetime, "yyyyMMdd-HHmmss");

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