# Parsing Month, Day, and Year from a date

**URL:** <https://community.nextw.com/t/parsing-month-day-and-year-from-a-date/2216>\
**Category:** How Tos\
**Created:** [September 28, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/parsing-month-day-and-year-from-a-date/2216 "2026-09-28T19:56:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![erik.w](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.nextw.com/erik.w/32/125_2.png) [@erik.w](https://community.nextw.com/u/erik.w)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/parsing-month-day-and-year-from-a-date/2216/1 "2026-09-28T19:56:38Z")

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Nextworld has many date formats depending on locale. If I want to parse Month, Day, and Year from a date, I need to know the date format unless dates are always stored in the same format and only displayed in a different format. Does Nextworld always store dates in the same format and if so, is this format MM/DD/YYYY? Is there an action that will allow to extract the Month, Day, or year from a date?

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**Author:** ![kendra.b](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.nextw.com/kendra.b/32/110_2.png) [@kendra.b](https://community.nextw.com/u/kendra.b)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/parsing-month-day-and-year-from-a-date/2216/2 "2026-09-29T21:08:22Z")

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Dates are always stored as `YYYY-MM-DD`; locale only changes the display. No Logic Block action extracts the parts directly. Use Convert To Text on the date, which gives you the stored `YYYY-MM-DD` string, then Slice out the year, month and day.

If this keeps coming up, a Date Decomposition action idea could be considered.

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**Author:** ![erik.w](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.nextw.com/erik.w/32/125_2.png) [@erik.w](https://community.nextw.com/u/erik.w)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/parsing-month-day-and-year-from-a-date/2216/3 "2026-09-30T13:17:42Z")

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Thank you Kendra. That helps. There are logic blocks that slice the date but they were written several years ago and I was not sure they accommodated the different formats, but knowing that the date is stored in YYYY-MM-DD is helpful.