Date and Time Components For Date and Date-Time Functions

The following component names and values are supported as arguments for the date and date-time functions.

Component Name	Valid Values
year	0001-9999
quarter	1-4
month	1-12
day-of-year	1-366
day or day-of-month	1-31 (The two names for the component are equivalent.)
week	1-53
weekday	1-7 (Sunday-Saturday)
hour	0-23
minute	0-59
second	0-59
millisecond	0-999
microsecond	0-999999

For an argument that specifies a length of 8 or 10 characters, use 8 to include milliseconds and 10 to include microseconds in the returned value.
The last argument is always a USAGE format that indicates the data type returned by the function. The type may be A (alphanumeric), I (integer), D (floating-point double precision), H (date-time), or a standard date format (for example, YYMD).