Writes date values in the form <yy>yyqr or <yy>yy-qr, where the x in the format name is a character that represents the special character that separates the year and the quarter or the year, which can be a hyphen (-), period (.), blank character, slash (/), colon (:), or no separator; the year can be either 2 or 4 digits and qr is the quarter of the year expressed in roman numerals.
| Category: | Date and Time |
| Alignment: | Right |
identifies a separator or specifies that no separator appear between the year and the quarter. These are valid values for x:
separates with a colon.
separates with a hyphen.
indicates no separator.
separates with a period.
separates with a forward slash.
specifies the width of the output field.
| Default | 8 |
| Range | 6–32 |
| Interactions | When x is set to N, no separator is specified. The width range is then 5–32, and the default changes to 7. |
| When the value of w is too small to write a four-digit year, the date appears with only the last two digits of the year. |