| A | B |
| D | Day of week (1-7). |
| DAY | Name of day, padded with blanks to length of 9 characters. |
| DD | Day of month (1-31). |
| DDD | Day of year (1-366). |
| DY | Abbreviated name of day. |
| FM | Returns a value with no leading or trailing blanks |
| FX | Requires exact matching between the character data and the format model. |
| HH | Hour of day (1-12). |
| HH12 | Hour of day (1-12). |
| HH24 | Hour of day (0-23). |
| IW | Week of year (1-52 or 1-53) based on the ISO standard. |
| IYYY | 4-digit year based on the ISO standard |
| J | Julian day; the number of days since January 1, 4712 BC. Number specified with J must be |
| MI | Minute (0-59). |
| MM | Month (01-12; January = 01). |
| MON | MON Abbreviated name of month. |
| MONTH | Name of month, padded with blanks to length of 9 characters. |
| Q | Quarter of year (1, 2, 3, 4; January – March = 1). |
| RM | Roman numeral month (I-XII; January = I). |
| RR | Lets you store 20th century dates in the 21st century using only two digits. |
| SS | 0 to 59.9(n), where 9(n) is the precision of interval fractional seconds |
| SSSSS | Seconds past midnight (0-86399). |
| WW | Week of year (1-53) where week 1 starts on the first day of the year and continues to the |
| W | Week of month (1-5) where week 1 starts on the first day of the month and ends on the |
| X | Local radix character. |
| Y,YYY | Year with comma in this position. |
| YEAR | -4712 to 9999 (excluding year 0) |
| SYEAR | Year, spelled out; S prefixes BC dates with a minus sign (-). |
| YYYY, YYY, YY, Y | Year or last 3, 2, 1 digits of year |
| SYYYY | 4-digit year; S prefixes BC dates with a minus sign |