The date decoder allows you to break down a date value into its component elements, namely the year, month, day of month, day of week, day of year, hour, minute, second and millisecond. An example of use of the date decoder is described below:

• Create the UDM
• Add a child to the node
  a) In the data port options, check database
  b) Select from the dropdown list a specific data type for the new node being added.
  c) Input the database parameters for retrieving data.
  d) Input additional database parameters, if any
• To the newly added node, add another child node similarly,
  a) Check date decoder as the dataport options .
• Regenerate the HTML and save it.
• Click on "Link to site" and view it.
  For any specific datatype, you can view the date elements decomposed to the Year, month, day of month, day of week, day of year, hour, minute, second, Millisecond