date

 

 

Description

The date function converts a single argument {obj} to a Date. Alternatively, the date function will convert year, month, and day into an Analytic Information Server Date constant. The date must be in the range 1015BC to 1015AD.

When to use

The date function is used to coerce an object to a Date object. The Date object is represented as a julian number. To express the date as an ASCII date constant in the : #Month,Day,Year, the string function can be used.

 

Syntax

(date obj)

(date year month day )



Name Description AIS Types
objAn object to be coerced into a Date.String Number
year{__content: "A year in the range 10" superscript: "15" __content: "BC to 10" superscript: "15" __content: "AD. Years before Christ must be entered as negative numbers." Number
monthA number representing the month of the year. If the number of months is greater than 12, Analytic Information Server advances the excess months to the following year. Number
dayA number representing the day of the month. If the day value is greater than the number of days in the month you specify, Analytic Information Server advances the extra days to the following month. Number


Returns:

A Date representation of the argument

 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

Example_Date_date_001

These examples convert Number argument values into the Date data type with the Date format using the date function.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

Date String Number

Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.

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