Select a date in YYYYMM format?

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Select a date in YYYYMM format?

jbalbo

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June 20, 2012 at 8:25 am

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Hi,
I need to take a date in YYMMDD format and select it as YYYYMM or MMYYYY format as a date and not a string...
Thanks in Advance
Joe

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 1

Dates are a datatype. Formatting is for display. You can't change the format of a datetime. You can however get a string representation in just about any format you want.

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Sean Lange (6/20/2012)
Dates are a datatype. Formatting is for display. You can't change the format of a datetime. You can however get a string representation in just about any format you want.

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