Date Format Strings
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Note: if first character of a format is '&', then rest of date defines
a preset format (settable by developer? in gnue.conf or geas?). 
  
  e.g., in gnue.conf: 
   
      FormatDate_longdate = "A, b d, Y"

  Then, in the client, the format string could be:

      "&longdate"

  This allows reuse of common format masks throughout the application.



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Display Masks (used in forms & reports) (not for entry masks): 
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       \     Next character is a literal

       a     Abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)

       A     Full weekday name, variable  length  (Sun­
              day..Saturday)

       b     Abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)

       B     Full  month  name,  variable length (Jan­
              uary..December)

       c     Century (19..)

       d     day of month (01..31)

       D     day of month [nonpadded] (1..31)

       h     hour (01..12)

       H     hour [nonpadded] (1..12)

       g     hour (00..23)

       G     hour [nonpadded] (0..23)

       j     day of year (001..366)

       J     day of year [nonpadded] (1..366)

       m     month (01..12)

       m     month [nonpadded] (1..12)

       i     minute (00..59)

       I     minute (0..59)

       p     am or pm (lowercase)

       P     AM or PM (uppercase)

       s     second (00..60)

       S     second (0..60)

       u     week number of year with Sunday  as  first  day  of
              week (00..53)

       U     week number of year with Sunday  as  first  day  of
              week [nonpadded] (0..53)

       v     week  number  of  year  with Monday as first day of
              week (01..52)

       V     week  number  of  year  with Monday as first day of
              week [nonpadded] (1..52)

       w     day of week (0..6);  0 represents Sunday

       x     week number of year with Monday  as  first  day  of
              week (00..53)

       X     week number of year with Monday  as  first  day  of
              week [nonpadded] (0..53)

       y     year w/century (1970...)

       Y     last two digits of year (00..99)

     Predefined literals:  "/-.:, "

Examples: 
   01/01/2001:   "m/d/y"
   Friday, June 1, 2001:  "A, b d, Y"



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Entry Masks (used in forms when inputting data into a field):
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       \     Next character is a literal

       a     Abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)

       b     Abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)

       d     day of month (01..31)

       h     hour (01..12)

       g     hour (00..23)

       j     day of year (001..366)

       m     month (01..12)

       i     minute (00..59)

       p     am or pm

       s     second (00..60)

       u     week number of year with Sunday  as  first  day  of
              week (00..53)

       v     week  number  of  year  with Monday as first day of
              week (01..52)

       y     year

     Predefined literals:  "/-.:, "

Example: 

  m/d/y		01/01/2001
  m/y		01/2001
  h:i p		12:29 pm