The Format dialog helps you to format the selected Date field.

You can access this dialog by clicking Format Help in the Column Editor dialog (for Browse).

The Format dialog for Date field includes the following options:

Date Format Enter a valid display format for the selected date field.
99/99/99 Select to display the date in two-byte segments delimited by a backslash (/). This is the standard format.
99-99-99 Select to display the date in two-byte segments delimited by a hyphen (-).
99.99.99 Select to display the date in two-byte segments delimited by a period (.).
99/99/9999 Select to display the date in two-byte segments for the month and day and display the year in four-bytes. Delimit with a backslash (/).
99-99-9999 Select to display the date in two-byte segments for the month and day and display the year in four-bytes. Delimit with a hyphen (-).
99.99.9999 Select to display the date in two-byte segments for the month and day and display the year in four-bytes. Delimit with a period (.).
999999 Select to display the date in six bytes with no delimiter character.
99999999 Select to display the date in eight bytes with no delimiter character.
Standard Select to format the selected field to the default ABL format for dates, 99/99/99.