YEAR:
MONTH:
DAY:
DATE SEPARATOR:
A date literal has the format:
{d 'YYYY[- | / | .]MM[- | / | .]DD' }
where YYYY is the four digit year, MM is the one or two digit month of the year (between 1 and 12), and DD is the one or two digit day of the month (between 1 and 31).
CONNX does not assume the date is in the current century if YYYY has two digits. For example, the literal {d '02-01-14'} refers to the year 2 C.E., not 2002 C.E. or 1902 C.E.
Date literals have a Date SQL type.
When a character literal is used in an expression that expects a date, CONNX will assume the supplied character string is a date literal, even without the date literal prefix '{d' and suffix '}'.
Examples of valid date literals:
Literal |
Validity |
{d '2014-03-01' } |
valid |
{d '1920-12-20' } |
valid |
{d '1920.12.20' } |
valid |
{d '1950/1/20' } |
valid |
{d '1920-12-20' } |
valid |
{d '2014-13-01' } |
invalid month |
{d '1920-12-99' } |
invalid day |