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Can I display a date field as YYYY-MM, where MM would be a two-digit rendering for the month?

  • October 28, 2013
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I'd like a field to look at a specific date entered, and then return the year/month in the following format: YYYY-MM, where MM would be two-digit rendering of the month. For example, 1/15/14 would return 2014-01, or 11/2/13 would return 2013-11.

The following formula almost gets me there - except the month shows as a single digit, instead of having a leading 0 when needed.

var number YYYY = Year([SLA Date:]);var number MM = Month([SLA Date:]);(ToText($YYYY)) & "-" & (ToText($MM))
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  • MarkShnier
  • Quickbase Alumni
  • October 29, 2013
No problem, Try this

var text YYYY = Totext(Year([SLA Date:]));

var text MM = right("0" & totext(Month([SLA Date:]),2);

$YYYY & "-" & $MM)


This trick is to zero pad the month, so you stick on a leading zero and then take the rightmost 2 characters.

so, 0 becomes 01 and 12 becomes 012 which gets trimmed to 12 when you take the rightmost 2 characters.
    • AndrewAndrew2
    • Quickbase Alumni
    • May 12, 2015
    The "trick is to zero pad the month"! I almost gave up in my search for the answer until I stumbled upon this - thanks Mark!
      :) glad my posting from 2 years ago was useful.  I remember the first time someone on this forum showed me how to do that, so I'm just keeping the knowledge alive.
      • MindaMay
      • Quickbase Alumni
      • May 10, 2019
      Yes, this is awesome... I ended up using two of your answers to get what I needed - YYMMDD
      Here's what I have:


      var date MyDate = ToDate([Date Created]);
      var text MM = Right("0" & ToText(Month(ToDate([Date Created]))),2);

      var text DD = Right("0" & ToText(Day($MyDate)),2);

      var text YY = Right(ToText(Year($MyDate)),2);




      $YY & $MM & $DD

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