20,000 IBM DB2 Timestamp Format Examples

You will love this blog because date, timestamp functions and formatting differ dramatically between databases, and IBM DB2 handles them uniquely, but I have covered everything you need to know about formatting with brilliant examples and clear and concise explanations.

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Below are some great examples for formatting an IBM DB2 timestamp to get you a great start to understanding how DB2 formats.

YYYY: Four-digit year.
YY: Two-digit year.
MM: Month (01-12).
DD: Day of the month (01-31) with leading zero.
HH: Hour (00-23).
MI: Minute (00-59).
SS: Second (00-59).
FF6: Milliseconds.
FF9: Femtosec.
Month: Name of month capitalized.
Mon: Abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan, Feb).
CC: Century.
DAY: Name of the day of the week in all caps.
DY: Abbreviated day of the week name in all caps (e.g., SUN, MON).
Day: Name of the day of the week capitalized.
AM|PM: AM or PM).

I bet you didn’t know you could use the TO_CHAR function in the WHERE and AND clause to filter rows in the WHERE clause. The query below only returns rows where the customer_timestamp has a month of December, a day of Saturday, a second of 34 and a millisecond of 000.

In the table below you can scroll to see 20,000 different DB2 timestamp format examples.