MINDATE

MINDATE returns a character string containing the earliest date/time value corresponding to a specified date/time pattern.

MINDATE('YYYY-MM-DD-HH.MI.SS.999999') returns the value '1582-10-14-00.00.00.000000' under the NONULLDATE compiler option and '0001-01-01-00.00.00.000000' under the NULLDATE compiler option.

p

Specifies one of the supported date/time patterns.

The allowed date/time patterns are listed in Table 2.