Placeholders for dates and times – Billomat Support

The values are always displayed according to the local area profile.

Placeholder	Description	Example
`[Date.datetime]`	full date including time	10/21/2011 15:47:23
`[Date.dates]`	full date	21/10/2011
`[Date.day]`	day as number, 2 digits	21
`[Date.day_short]`	day as number, 1 or 2 digits	21
`[Date.weekday]`	full name of weekday	Friday
`[Date.weekday_short]`	abbreviated name of weekday	Fri
`[Date.day_of_year]`	day of year as number, 1 or 2 digits	293
`[Date.week]`	calendar week as number (1–53)	42
`[Date.month]`	month as number, two digits	10
`[Date.month_short]`	month as number, 1 or 2 digits	10
`[Date.month_name]`	full name of month	October
`[Date.month_name_short]`	abbreviated name of month	Oct
`[Date.month_days]`	number of days in current month	31
`[Date.year]`	year as number, 4 digits	2011
`[Date.year_short]`	year as number, 2 digits	11
`[Date.quarter]`	quarter as number (1 - 4)	2
`[Date.half_year]`	half year as number (1 or 2)	1
`[Date.times]`	full time of day	15:47:23
`[Date.hour]`	hour(00-23)	15
`[Date.minute]`	minute(00-59)	47
`[Date.second]`	seconds(00-59)	23

Date calculations

The placeholders for date and time are intelligent placeholders. This means that calculations can also be performed.

Periods (days, weeks, months, and years) can be either added (+) or subtracted
(-). The starting date is always the present day.

Unit	Description	Example	Result
`D`	day	`[Date.weekday+30D]`, `[Date.dates+30D]`	Sunday, 11/20/2011
`W`	week	calendar week `[Date.week-6W]`	calendar week 36
`M`	month	`[Date.month_name+3M]` `[Date.year+3M]`	January 2012
`Y`	year	`[Date.dates-10Y]`	10/21/2001

Several mathematical operations can be combined in a placeholder.
For example: the code [Date.dates+2Y-1D] turns to 10/20/2013.