Errors in formatting ARDATE, ARDATEONLY, and ARTIMEONLY

If you set up an incorrectly formatted ARDATE, ARDATEONLY, and ARTIMEONLY environment variable, the BMC Remedy AR System parses the correctly formatted parts and returns the invalid parts as a literal string in the date or time.

See Field descriptors for a list of valid field descriptors.

It is possible to write an ARDATE, ARDATEONLY, and ARTIMEONLY environment variable that is correctly formatted but does not make sense. For example, avoid repeating a valid descriptor excessively (%B %B %B %B %B). If a format such as this is chosen, dates are formatted correctly on output, but the system cannot interpret any date that you specify as input.