Excel Format For Two Digit Date And Four Digit Year Mac 2018



Description

Creating custom 4 digit year format I am trying to make Excel present years in a 4 digit form, i.e. I have created a 4 digit custom format, 'yyyy' but no matter what I type into the cell, Excel.

Formats a date value using U.S. date formats. For international date support, use LSDateFormat.

  • The text dates with two-digit years convert to standard dates with four-digit years. Once you have converted the cells from text-formatted dates, you can change the way the dates appear in the cells by applying date formatting.
  • The format is as 2/06/2015 and Excel does not recognize as a date format to use with filters, even if I setup the cell as a date format. Text to Columns works great to convert that to DD-MM-YYYY, but I am wondering if I could have a formula to automatically make this work as soon as I open this spreadsheet.

Returns

A text string representing the date formatted according to the mask. If no mask is specified, returns the value in dd-mmm-yy format.

Category

Function syntax

See also

Now, CreateDate, LSDateFormat, LSParseDateTime, LSTimeFormat, ParseDateTime

History

ColdFusion (2021 release): Added a JVM flag -Dcoldfusion.datemask.useDasdayofmonth. It defaults to false but when set to true and the mask contains D (uppercase D), the mask treats the value as d (lowercase d), day of the month. Hence, dateformat(now(), 'mm-D-yyyy') is the same as dateformat(now(), 'mm-d-yyyy') when flag is set to true. By default Capital D is used to specify Day of the year. See example below.

ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 3. ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 10, and ColdFusion 11 Update 18: Input formats 'm/d' or 'd/m', where masks m as month and d as date with valid month/day numerals are no more considered as valid date input. For example, see Example 2.

ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 3: Contains the following changes:

  • You can use both lowercase and uppercase letters as mask characters.
  • The following masks are added:
    • e/E: Day in a week.
    • f/F: Day of a week in a month.
    • k/K: Hour in a day (1-24).
    • w: Week of the year as digit.
    • ww: Week of the year as digits. Leading zero for single-digit week.

ColdFusion MX: Added support for the following mask parameter options: short, medium, long, and full.

Parameters

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Parameter

Description

date

Date/time object, in the range 100 AD-9999 AD.

mask

Characters that show how ColdFusion displays a date:

  • d: Day of the month as digits; no leading zero for single-digit days.
  • dd: Day of the month as digits; leading zero for single-digit days.
  • ddd: Day of the week as a three-letter abbreviation.
  • dddd: Day of the week as its full name.
  • eee/EEE: Day of the week as a three-letter abbreviation.
  • eeee/EEEE: Day of the week as its full name.
  • f/F: Day of a week in a month.
  • m: Month as digits; no leading zero for single-digit months.
  • mm: Month as digits; leading zero for single-digit months.
  • mmm: Month as a three-letter abbreviation.
  • mmmm: Month as its full name.
  • M: Month in year.
  • D: Day in year.
  • k/K: Hour in a day.
  • w: Week of the year as digit.
  • ww: Week of the year as digits. Leading zero for single-digit week.
  • W: Week of the month as digit.
  • WW: Week of the month as digits. Leading zero for single-digit week.
  • Y: Week year.
  • YY: Week year as last two digits; leading zero for years less than 10.
  • yy: Year as last two digits; leading zero for years less than 10.
  • yyyy/YYYY: Year represented by four digits.
  • gg: Period/era string. Ignored. Reserved. The following masks tell how to format the full date and cannot be combined with other masks:
  • short: equivalent to m/d/y
  • medium: equivalent to mmm d, yyyy
  • long: equivalent to mmmm d, yyyy
  • full: equivalent to dddd, mmmm d, yyyy
  • z: Time zone in literal format, for example, IST
  • Z: Time zone in hours of offset (RFC 822 TimeZone), for example, +0530
  • X: Time zone in hours of offset in ISO 8601 format. The following are the three ways of using 'X':
    • X: +05
    • XX: +0530
    • XXX: +5:30

Usage

When passing a date/time object as a string, enclose it in quotation marks. Otherwise, it is interpreted as a numeric representation of a date/time object.

Date and time values in database query results can vary in sequence and formatting unless you use functions to format them. To ensure that application users correctly understand displayed dates and times, Adobe recommends that you use this function and the LSDateFormat and LSTimeFormat functions to format resultset values.

The DateFormat function is best used for formatting output, not for formatting input. For formatting input, use one of the date/time creation functions (for example, CreateDate) instead.

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Example 1

Output

date is : 15-Nov-18
day in a week is : Thu
day of a week in a month : 3
hour in a day: 12
week of the year as a digit: 46
Week of the year as digits. Leading zero for single-digit week. : 46

The code above runs as expected and produces the following output:

The date is: 04-10

Year

However, the code below throws an exception since the input date is in an incorrect format.

coldfusion.datemask.useDasdayofmonth

If you set the above flag as D, the snippet below produces the same output when the mask is set to d.

Excel uses date serial numbers to store date and time information. Date serial numbers are fully explained in our Essential Skills Books and E-books.

If you encounter an Excel date that won’t change when you change its format it’s likely that your dates aren’t being stored as ‘true’ dates (ie. date serial numbers) by Excel, but rather as text. You can confirm this by setting the cell’s format to Number and checking whether a serial number appears.

You can also see more about changing the formats of cells in Essential Skills.

If it turns out that you do have dates stored as text, you can convert them into date serial numbers using the VALUE function. This will convert a textual date into a number, which you can then format to appear as a date. With custom formats, you should be able to arrange the months, days and years however you need them.

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In this example we have the date “14 Aug 2018”, but no matter how I change the date formatting the appearance of the date doesn’t change at all.

If I try setting the format to Number the date still stays as “14 Aug 2018”. If it was a ‘real’ date this would have translated it into the date serial number 43326.

Using the VALUE function will translate this text into a true date that can be formatted.

Now that you have the date serial number you can apply whichever date format you need to it. I’ll apply the format dd mmmm yyyy.

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Custom formats like this are explained in depth in our Essential Skills Books and E-books.

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