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Date tokens

Both the from and to arguments of DATE_CONVERT use the same token set.

Token Meaning Example
YYYY 4-digit year 2026
YY 2-digit year (00–69 → 2000s, 70–99 → 1900s) 26
MM 2-digit month (01–12) 03
M 1–2 digit month 3
MMMM Full month name March
MMM 3-char month abbreviation Mar
DD 2-digit day (01–31) 07
D 1–2 digit day 7
hh 2-digit hour, 24h (00–23) 14
h 1–2 digit hour, 24h 14
ii 2-digit hour, 12h (01–12) 02
i 1–2 digit hour, 12h 2
mm 2-digit minute 05
m 1–2 digit minute 5
ss 2-digit second 09
s 1–2 digit second 9
A AM/PM uppercase PM
a am/pm lowercase pm
ZZ UTC offset ±HH:MM (parses a literal Z as +00:00) +02:00
EEEE Full day name Monday
EEE/EE/E Short day name Mon
e Day of week as number (1 = Mon … 7 = Sun) 1
[text] Literal text (escaped inside format string) [T] → T
[*] Wildcard — skip until the next token skips Z, timezone suffix