您所要做的只是提供一个格式，该函数会完成所有其他事情。

All you have to do is supply a format and the function does the rest.

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然后将此信息传递给带有常用显示格式的日期函数。

Then you pass this to the date function with a common display format.

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这个格式表示的是odbc函数的语法。

This format represents syntax used with ODBC functions.

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But if you avoid all of these minutia and focus really just on the idea, it looks like what was a blue say block, a so called statement, is now going to be something called printf where the F happens to stand for formatted.

但是如果你抛开所有这些繁琐的细节，把注意力集中到,它的编程思想，那么它只不过一个蓝色的say程序块，是一个声明,即所谓的printf函数，其中的f是,用于格式化输出。

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