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• Time literals are in the English language only.
Date literals
Literals
A date literal specifies a day, month, and year using any of the following formats, enclosed in
single quotation marks ( ' ' ). This is the syntax for date literals:
Syntax
{ d ’yyyy-mm-dd’ }
{ d 'yyyy-mm-dd' }
A date literal enclosed in an escape clause is compatible with ODBC. Precede the literal
string with an open brace ( { ) and a lowercase d. End the literal with a close brace )}). If
you use the ODBC escape clause, you must specify the date using the format yyyy-mm-dd.
Note Date literals must be enclosed in single quotations, such as the case with column values in an
INSERT statement.
Examples The following example illustrates how to use the date literal format with an INSERT statement:
INSERT INTO dtest VALUES ( { d '2004-05-07' } )
The INSERT and SELECT statements in the following example show some of the supported
formats for date literals:
CREATE TABLE T2 (C1 DATE, C2 TIME);
INSERT INTO T2 (C1) VALUES('5/7/56');
INSERT INTO T2 (C1) VALUES('7/MAY/1956');
INSERT INTO T2 (C1) VALUES('1956/05/07');
INSERT INTO T2 (C1) VALUES({d '1956-05-07'});
INSERT INTO T2 (C1) VALUES('29-SEP-1952');
SELECT C1 FROM T2;
-------------c1
1956-05-07
1956-05-07
1956-05-07
1956-05-07
1952-09-29
Time literals
Time literals specify an hour, minute, second, and millisecond, using the following format,
enclosed in single quotation marks (' ' ). This is the syntax for time literals:
Syntax
{ hh:mi:ss[:mls ] }
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