MONTH scalar function

The MONTH function returns the month part of a value.

The schema is SYSIBM.

The argument must be an expression that returns one of the following built-in data types: a date, a timestamp, a character string, a graphic string, or a numeric data type.

If expression is a character or graphic string, it must not be a CLOB or DBCLOB, and its value must be a valid string representation of a date or timestamp with an actual length of not greater than 255 bytes. For the valid formats of string representations of dates and timestamps, see String representations of datetime values.
If expression is a number, it must be a date or timestamp duration. For the valid formats of date and timestamp durations, see Datetime operands.

If expression is a timestamp with a time zone, or a valid string representation of a timestamp with a time zone, the result is determined from the UTC representation of the datetime value.

The result of the function is a large integer.

The result can be null; if the argument is null, the result is the null value.

The other rules depend on the data type of the argument:

If the argument is a date, timestamp, or string representation of either, the result is the month part of the value, which is an integer in the range 1–12.
If the argument is a date duration or timestamp duration, the result is the month part of the value, which is an integer between -99 and 99. A nonzero result has the same sign as the argument.
If the argument contains a time zone, the result is the month part of the value expressed in UTC.

Example 1: Select all rows in the sample table DSN8C10.EMP for employees who were born in May:

   SELECT * FROM DSN8C10.EMP
     WHERE MONTH(BIRTHDATE) = 5;

Example 2: The following invocations of the MONTH function returns the same result:

SELECT MONTH('2003-01-02-20.10.05.123456'), 
			MONTH('2003-01-02-12.10.05.123456-08:00'), 
			MONTH('2003-01-03-05.10.05.123456+09:00') 
		FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1;

For each invocation of the MONTH function in this SELECT statement, the result is 1.

When the input argument contains a time zone, the result is determined from the UTC representation of the input value. The string representations of a timestamp with a time zone in the SELECT statement all have the same UTC representation: 2003-01-02-20.10.05.123456. The month portion of the UTC representation is 1.