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Difference between the YY and RR format strings

The transformation language also provides a YY format string. Both the RR and YY format strings specify two-digit years. The YY and RR format strings produce identical results when used with all date functions except TO_DATE.

In TO_DATE expressions, RR and YY produce different results.

The following table shows the different results each format string returns:

String	Current year	TO_DATE(String, ‘MM/DD/RR’)	TO_DATE(String, ‘MM/DD/YY’)
04/12/98	1998	04/12/1998 00:00:00	04/12/1998 00:00:00
11/09/01	1998	11/09/2001 00:00:00	11/09/1901 00:00:00
04/12/98	2003	04/12/1998 00:00:00	04/12/2098 00:00:00
11/09/01	2003	11/09/2001 00:00:00	11/09/2001 00:00:00

For dates in the year 2000 and beyond, the YY format string produces less meaningful results than the RR format string. Use the RR format string for dates in the twenty-first century.

Dates in the year 2000

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