Date Type

A value of this Type indicates a specific date.

You can create date literals in QL code, which is occasionally helpful; you do this by treating Date Type as a function, and passing in a Text value to be parsed as a date, in the format mm/dd/yyyy. So to create a constant for the first day of the 21st century, you would say:

Date Type(""01/01/2000"")

ADVANCED: under the hood, DateTimes are based on the Joda-Time library, and you can use Joda-Time format strings when displaying a Date. For example, if you say:

[[My Thing -> My Date Property -> ""__MMM dd 'yy__""]]

it will display as something like "Mar 10 '96".

In the long time, we will probably add functions corresponding to most of the capabilities of Joda-Time. If there are specific functions or features that you need, please ask for them.