The ParseDate command parses the string date assumed to contain date information according to the parsing specification given by the format string format. The date format can be any format specification as described in StringTools[ParseTime].

If the format string is missing, several standard date formats are tried. The first format to succeed will be used. The "standard" date formats are "%d-%b-%Y", "%d-%b-%y", "%d-%m-%Y", "%d-%m-%y", "%b-%d-%Y", and "%b-%d-%y".

The record returned by ParseDate contains slots with the following meanings and ranges of values:

The Finance[ParseDate] command was introduced in Maple 15.

For more information on Maple 15 changes, see Updates in Maple 15.