# Date Formats Tab

This tab provides information for converting dates to strings and vice versa.

The cheat sheet shows some of the special characters used when describing the format of a data as a string; these are used when parsing a string into a data, or formatting a date as a string. For more information, see Date Formatting.

Some commonly used functions include: date() (date to string), stod() (string to date), nowstr() (current time as a string).

Some common date arithmetic functions include: period() and dateaddmins().