Control characters for date and time fields

Control character ASCII code Description
` 239 Start of a centihour field in decimal format: A 4-byte real field that ranges from 1.175494e-38 to 3.402823e38.
" 34 Start of a time field: hours, minutes, and seconds are displayed, for example, as HHMMSS. It can contain separator characters such as HH:MM:SS If the defined field is too small truncation is performed from the left to the right.
^ 94 Start of a date field. Year, month, and day are displayed, for example, as YYMMDD. It can contain separator characters such as YY/MM/DD. If the defined field is too small, truncation is performed from the left to the right.
ยจ 249 Start of a centihour field. Hour, minutes, and seconds displayed, for example, as HHMMSS. It can contain separator characters such as HH:MM:SS. If the defined field is too small, truncation is performed from the left to the right.
/ 47 Date delimiter.
: 58 Time delimiter.