Configuration Manager Date and Time Formats

Applies To: System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2

Actions, in Configuration Manager 2007, that include date and time values are common, such as get current date and time, 50 days from today is what date?, or find out what day of the week falls on a certain date. When you write queries or compose reports from information that is stored in the Configuration Manager site database, you can express the date and time in any valid SQL format. An example is any expression that has a SQL Server datetime data type or that can be converted implicitly, such as an appropriately formatted character string (for example, “1998.10.31”).

The times that are stored in the Configuration Manager site database can be local or in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Status Message Viewer can convert to local time, but queries and reports cannot. What you see might be seven hours later than expected, if local time is Pacific Daylight time. Therefore, the user must be aware of the following:

Status messages are all in UTC.

Offers can be in UTC or local time, depending on a switch that is set in the Configuration Manager console. The property in SMS_Advertisement is AssignedScheduleIsGMT (true/false).

Inventory is always in local time.

This property is lazy, but you can view it by using WBEMtest.

Depending on the context, you might encounter time notations in the following format:

19981118175900000000+***

The following information corresponds to the values in the previous example.

Value Description

1998

Year

11

Month

18

Day

1759

Hour

00

Second

000000

Microsecond

+***

Offset from local time

The following table lists valid datetime formats that you can use.

Style number without century Style number with century Type Output Style

-

0 or 100

Default

mon dd yyyy hh:mm

1

101

USA

mm/dd/yyyy

1

102

ANSI

yyyy.mm.dd

3

103

British/French

dd/mm/yyyy

4

104

German

dd.mm.yyyy

5

105

Italian

dd-mm-yyyy

6

106

dd-mon-yyyy

7

107

mon.dd.yyy

8 or 108

hh:mm:ss

9 or 109

mon dd yyyy

hh:mi:ss:mmmAM (or PM)

10

110

USA

mm-dd-yy

11

111

JAPAN

yy/mm/dd

12

112

ISO

yymmdd

13 or 113

dd mon yyyy

hh:mi:ss:mmm (24 h)

14

114

hh:mi:ss:mmm (24 h)

Besides full datetime formats, you can also use datepart formats, which are also valid for Query Builder or for writing reports from the Configuration Manager 2007 site database. Datepart formats provide only part of the full datetime format (for example, the year or just the day of the month). The following table lists valid datepart formats.

Datepart value Abbreviations Limits

Year

Yy

1753-9999

Month

Mm

1-12

Day

Dd

1-31

Hour

Hh

1-23

Minute

Mi

0-59

Second

Ss

0-59

Millisecond

Ms

0-999

See Also

Concepts

About Configuration Manager Objects