.. _functx_month-abbrev-en:

======================
functx:month-abbrev-en
====================== 

The month of a date as an abbreviated word (Jan, Feb, etc.)

Description
~~~~~~~~~~~
The functx:month-abbrev-en function returns the month of $date as an abbreviated 
xs:string in English, as in "Jan", "Feb", etc.

The $date argument must be castable to xs:date, meaning that it must have the 
type xs:date or xs:dateTime, or be an xs:string or untyped value of the form 
YYYY-MM-DD.

.. list-table::
   :widths: 40 60
   :header-rows: 1

   * - **Parameters**
     - **Description**
   * - date:date()
     - the date

Examples
~~~~~~~~
.. list-table::
   :widths: 50 50
   :header-rows: 1

   * - **XPath**
     - **Results**
   * - functx:month-abbrev-en(xs:date('2004-01-23'))
     - Jan
   * - functx:month-abbrev-en(xs:dateTime('2004-01-23T12:00:13'))
     - Jan
   * - functx:month-abbrev-en('2004-01-23')
     - Jan

See Also
~~~~~~~~

.. toctree::
   :titlesonly:
   :glob:

* :ref:`functx_month-name-en`.
* :ref:`month-from-date`.
* :ref:`month-from-dateTime`.