Oracle Forms Developer – Form Builder Reference, Volume 1

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YYY or YY or Y Last 3, 2, or 1 digits of year.
Y,YYY Year with comma in this position.
BC or AD BC/AD indicator.
B.C. or A.D. BD/AD indicator with periods.
RR Defaults to correct century. Deduces the century from a
date entered by comparing the 2 digit year entered with the
year and century to which the computer’s internal clock is
set. Years 00-49 will be given the 21 st century (the year
2000), and years from 50-99 will be given the 20th century
(the year 1900).
MM Month (01-12; JAN = 01).
MONTH Name of month, padded with blanks to length of 9
characters.
MON Name of month, 3-letter abbreviation.
DDD Day of year (1-366).
DD Day of month (1-31).
D Day of week (1-7; Sunday=1).
DAY Name of day, padded with blanks to length of 9 characters.
DY Name of day, 3-letter abbreviation.
J Julian day; the number of days since January 1, 4712 BC.
AM or PM Meridian indicator.
A.M. or P.M. Meridian indicator with periods.
HH or HH12 Hour of day (1-12).
HH24 Hour of day (0-23).
MI Minute (0-59).
SS Second (0-59).
SSSSS Seconds past midnight (0-86399).
/. , . Punctuation is reproduced in the result.
"..." Quoted string is reproduced in the result.
FM Fill mode: assumes implied characters such as O or space;
displays significant characters left justified. Allows end
user input to be shorter than the format mask. (Use in
conjunction with FX to require specific delimiters.)
FX All date literals must match the format mask exactly,
including delimiters.