# Avoid issue in DateString?

**URL:** <https://community.wolfram.com/t/avoid-issue-in-datestring/13795>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** units\
**Created:** [March 15, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/avoid-issue-in-datestring/13795 "2019-03-15T23:42:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![virgilio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c37758/32.png) [@virgilio](https://community.wolfram.com/u/virgilio)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/avoid-issue-in-datestring/13795/1 "2019-03-15T23:42:20Z")

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Consider the following code:

```
DateString[{2000, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0}, {"Year", " ", "Month", " ", "Day", 
      " ", "SecondExact", " "}]

```

yields

```
2000 01 01 00.000

```

but

```
DateString[{2000,1,1,0,0,0},{"Year"," ","Month"," ","Day"," ","MinuteExact"," "}]

```

and

```
DateString[{2000,1,1,0,0,0},{"Year"," ","Month"," ","Day"," ","HourExact"," "}]

```

yield

```
2000 01 01 {0., QuantityMagnitude[Minute]}

```

and

```
2000 01 01 {0., QuantityMagnitude[Hour]} 

```

respectively.

It does not seem like the units should be present in the last two cases for Minute and Hour.

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**Author:** ![danl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/wolfram/user_avatar/community.wolfram.com/danl/32/41267_2.png) [@danl](https://community.wolfram.com/u/danl)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/avoid-issue-in-datestring/13795/2 "2019-03-16T15:02:05Z")

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