Day, Month, Year, and Era Format Pictures
The format picture for a date string consists of a combination of null-terminated strings.
| Day | |
| d | Day of the month as digits without leading zeros for single digit days. |
| dd | Day of the month as digits with leading zeros for single digit days |
| ddd | Day of the week as a 3-letter abbreviation as given by a LOCALE_SABBREVDAYNAME value. |
| dddd | Day of the week as given by a LOCALE_SDAYNAME value. |
| Month | |
| M | Month as digits without leading zeros for single digit months. |
| MM | Month as digits with leading zeros for single digit months |
| MMM | Month as a three letter abbreviation as given by a LOCALE_SABBREVMONTHNAME value. |
| MMMM | Month as given by a LOCALE_SMONTHNAME value. |
| Year | |
| y | Year represented only be the last digit. |
| yy | Year represented only be the last two digits. |
| yyyy | Year represented by the full 4 digits. |
| Period/Era | |
| gg | Period/era string as given by the CAL_SERASTRING value. |
The "gg" format picture in a date string is ignored if there is no associated era string.