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Designing Labels
Working with Variable Data
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Available Date Formats
The date fields can be printed in various formats. In this field, you define how the date will
look. You can select some of the predefined date formats or enter you own. When defining the
formats, the following notation is used:
The examples:
D Number of the day in a month. Can occupy one or two characters.
DD Number of the day in a month. Always occupies two characters (leading
zeros will be added as necessary).
M M is number of the month. Can occupy one or two characters.
MM MM is number of the month. Always occupies two characters.
YY or YYYY The year as 2 or 4 digits.
DDD Abbreviation of the day of the week.
DDDD The full name of the day of the week.
MMMM The full name of the month.
MMM The abbreviation of the name of the month.
J The number of days since January 1. Can occupy from one to three
characters.
JJJ The number of days since January 1. Always occupies three characters.
W The week number in the current year. Can occupy one or two characters.
WW The week number in the current year. Always occupies two characters.
Any other sequence of characters will be displayed unchanged so you can
insert dots, commas and other characters needed to properly write the date.
Format How the date will look
D/M/YYYY 10/3/2005
DD/MM/YY 10/03/05
DDDD, D. MMMM YYYY Thursday, 10. March 2005
JJJWWYYYY 069102005