EGL
uses a different process to convert each date/time type to text:
- TIMESTAMP
- EGL uses strLib.defaultTimestampFormat if
the
variable has a valid value. If that format is not valid, EGL throws
a RuntimeException.
If the format is an empty string, EGL uses a portion of the following
default
format, which is based on the mask that you used to define the TIMESTAMP
variable:
"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSSSS". Consider the following example:
strLib.defaultTimestampFormat = "";
myTimestamp TIMESTAMP("HHmmss")? = "123102";
writeStdOut(myTimestamp);
- EGL uses only the
"HH:mm:ss" portion of the default format, and displays
"12:31:02" on the console.
- TIME
- EGL
uses strLib.defaultTimeFormat if the variable
has a valid value. If that format is not valid, EGL throws a RuntimeException.
If the format is an empty string, the result is an empty string.
- DATE
- EGL uses strLib.defaultDateFormat if
the variable
has a valid value. If that format is not valid, EGL throws a RuntimeException.
If the format is an empty string, the result is an empty string.
- INTERVAL (months)
- EGL uses the mask
that you used to define the variable to determine the
number of digits for each portion of the interval. The formatted string
can
include the following characters, in the specified order:
- A
sign (one character), if the value is negative
- The number
of years (using the number of places specified in the mask)
- A
hyphen (one character)
- The number of months (using the number
of places specified in the mask)
- EGL omits the leading
zeros for the first specified value. For example,
if the variable stores both years and months, EGL omits the leading
zeros
in the years value but retains the leading zeros in the months value.
If
the variable stores only months, EGL omits the leading zeros in the
months
value.
- If the variable does not store both years and months,
EGL omits the missing
field and the hyphen. Consider the following example:
myInterval INTERVAL("yyyy") = 25;
writeStdOut(myInterval);
- The console displays
"25".
- INTERVAL (seconds)
- EGL uses
the mask that you used to define the variable to determine the
number of digits for each portion of the interval. The formatted string
can
include the following characters, in the specified order:
- A
minus sign (one character), if the value is negative
- The number
of days (using the number of places specified in the mask)
- A
space (one character)
- The number of hours (as specified in
the mask)
- A colon (one character)
- The number of minutes
(as specified in the mask)
- A colon (one character)
- The
number of seconds (as specified in the mask)
- A decimal point
(one character)
- The number of fractions of seconds (as specified
in the mask)
- EGL omits the leading zeros for the
first specified value. For example,
if the variable stores both days and hours, EGL omits the leading
zeros in
the days value but retains the leading zeros in the hours value. If
the variable
stores only hours and minutes, EGL omits the leading zeros in the
hours value
but retains them in the minutes value.
- If the variable does
not store a particular field, EGL skips the field
and the separator character (space, colon, or decimal) that comes
after it.
Consider the following example:
myInterval INTERVAL("dddddHHmm") = -5231301;
writeStdOut(myInterval);
- The console displays
"-523 13:01".