date:month-name

Returns the full name of the month of a date. If no argument is given, then the current local date/time, as returned by date:date-time is used as the default argument. The result is an English month name: one of 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November' or 'December'.

month-name($date-time as string?) ➔ string

Arguments

 

$date-time

string?

The input date-time

Result

string

Namespace

http://exslt.org/dates-and-times

Links to specifications

EXSLT Dates and Times Module

Saxon availability

Requires Saxon-PE or Saxon-EE. Available for Java and C/C++ only (not .NET).

See also:

date:month-abbreviation()