topic Re: Month function in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Month-function/m-p/992335#M1296256 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In your LOAD script, scroll to the top and look for a <SPAN style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">SET MonthNames = '...';</SPAN> line.</P><P></P><P>Change the string value so that it matches your expectations. Date functions get the short string representations for month names from variable <SPAN style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">MonthNames</SPAN>.</P><P></P><P>Note that you can define a variable called <SPAN style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">LongMonthNames</SPAN> in the same way to control the long Month Names (e.g. format spec 'MMMM')</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:53:23 GMT Peter_Cammaert 2015-10-29T14:53:23Z Month function https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Month-function/m-p/992333#M1296252 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am using month function but why it is coming OKT instead of OCT</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Month-function/m-p/992333#M1296252 Anonymous 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z Re: Month function https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Month-function/m-p/992334#M1296254 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>may that's how in r datasource.</P><P></P><P>pls share qvw?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:47:40 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Month-function/m-p/992334#M1296254 buzzy996 2015-10-29T14:47:40Z Re: Month function https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Month-function/m-p/992335#M1296256 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In your LOAD script, scroll to the top and look for a <SPAN style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">SET MonthNames = '...';</SPAN> line.</P><P></P><P>Change the string value so that it matches your expectations. Date functions get the short string representations for month names from variable <SPAN style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">MonthNames</SPAN>.</P><P></P><P>Note that you can define a variable called <SPAN style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">LongMonthNames</SPAN> in the same way to control the long Month Names (e.g. format spec 'MMMM')</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:53:23 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Month-function/m-p/992335#M1296256 Peter_Cammaert 2015-10-29T14:53:23Z