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Data Type: DisplayString DisplayString (SIZE (25))
Full dates are defined in the ASCII format: yyyyMMddhhmmss.uuuuuu+fff or yyyyMMddhhmmss.uuuuuu-fff
where yyyy is the year, MM is the month, dd is the day, hh are the hours, mm are the minutes, and ss are the seconds. uuuuuu
is the number of microseconds, and +fff or -fff is the offset from UTC in minutes. For example, Friday, October 31, 2001, at
6:05:19 PM CST would be represented as 20011031180519.000000-360.
The values are zero-padded, and if a valid value for a field is not deliverable, each character in the field is replaced with an
asterisk (*) character.
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