Hello All,

I have some issues with the WebFOCUS date formats.
I have a date field with the format HYYMD.
This returns the date in the format 2005/02/21.
I want a format which will convert this date to the form Feb-2005. ie, the date 2005/02/21 has to be converted to the form Feb-2005(no day). Please help me.
I cannot convert this to an alpha field because basically my requirement is to sort the data by date. If i use alpha field, the sorting will be done alphabetically.

I am using WebFOCUS 5.3.

Cyril,

If you print the date with the format MtYY instead of YYMD, you will get a date in a format similar to what you're looking for.

For instance, today's date would print as

May, 2005.

Ken

Something I forgot to add. If you absolutely need the date in the format of May-2005 (including the dash - ), then you could convert the date to alphanumeric. The trick would be to sort the data by the actual date field first (NOPRINT) and then by the alphanumeric version of the date.

BY DATE_FIELD NOPRINT
BY ALPHA_DATE_FIELD

This would ensure that you sort your data by date but display the format that is required.

Either way would suffice.

Ken

Try this.

DDATE/YYMD = HDATE(ROW_DATE, 'YYMD');
DODATE/MDYY = (DDATE);
DATEE/MtYY = DODATE;

Thanks a lot Lane and Prarie.
The format MtYY worked for me.