Edit: Read my next post first, especially the “Introduction to Relevance” and “Introduction to Action” Guides. The rest of this post is more for how to locate information, once you’re comfortable with the syntax.
One trick, in the Fixlet Debugger, is to hit the “View -> Show Type Information” button…
q: now
A: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:28:06 -0500
T: 4.556 ms
I: singular time
And then, the Introspectors (Inspectors of Inspectors) can help point in the right direction…
q: properties of type "time"
A: date <time zone> of <time>: date
A: unique values of <time>: time with multiplicity
A: minima of <time>: time
A: maxima of <time>: time
A: extremas of <time>: ( time, time )
A: time <time zone> of <time>: time of day with time zone
T: 0.271 ms
I: plural property
In your case, the date looks interesting…it takes a “time zone” parameter though. We can find any other properties that look like they return a time zone…
q: properties whose (it as string contains "time zone")
A: date <time zone> of <time>: date
A: universal time zone: time zone
A: local time zone: time zone
A: time zone <string>: time zone
A: unique values of <time zone>: time zone with multiplicity
A: multiplicity of <time zone with multiplicity>: integer
A: unique values of <time of day with time zone>: time of day with time zone with multiplicity
A: multiplicity of <time of day with time zone with multiplicity>: integer
A: time of <time of day with time zone>: time of day
A: zone of <time of day with time zone>: time zone
A: hour_of_day of <time of day with time zone>: integer
A: minute_of_hour of <time of day with time zone>: integer
A: second_of_minute of <time of day with time zone>: integer
A: two digit hour of <time of day with time zone>: string
A: two digit minute of <time of day with time zone>: string
A: two digit second of <time of day with time zone>: string
A: zoned time_of_day <string>: time of day with time zone
A: time <time zone> of <time>: time of day with time zone
A: current time_of_day <time zone>: time of day with time zone
A: current time_of_day: time of day with time zone
T: 9.668 ms
I: plural property
So here the “local time zone” property looks interesting, and is what you want. Likewise you can find the “month” property of type “date”. To figure out your conversion options, you can try “casts from of type” to find the “as two digits” cast.
q: casts from of type "month"
A: <month> as integer: integer
A: <month> as string: string
A: <month> as three letters: string
A: <month> as two digits: string
T: 0.106 ms
I: plural cast
Interestingly, in all of those results the “I:” refers to a Type. Some of those types include “property”, “type”, and “cast”, and you can retrieve the properties of those as well -
q: properties of type "cast"
A: name of <cast>: string
A: operand type of <cast>: type
A: result type of <cast>: type
T: 0.166 ms
I: plural property
q: properties of type "property"
A: singular name of <property>: string
A: plural name of <property>: string
A: usual name of <property>: string
A: result type of <property>: type
A: index type of <property>: type
A: direct object type of <property>: type
A: multivalued of <property>: boolean
A: dependency known of <property>: boolean
T: 0.228 ms
I: plural property
q: properties of type "type"
A: casts from of <type>: cast
A: properties of <type>: property
A: properties <string> of <type>: property
A: properties returning <type> of <type>: property
A: name of <type>: string
A: size of <type>: integer
A: parent of <type>: type
T: 0.245 ms
I: plural property
… you can get a list of all possible properties with “properties” which gives way too many results to post here, but here’s an excerpt:
q: properties
A: binary operators: binary operator
A: binary operators <string>: binary operator
A: binary operators returning <type>: binary operator
A: name of <binary operator>: string
A: symbol of <binary operator>: string
A: result type of <binary operator>: type
A: left operand type of <binary operator>: type
A: right operand type of <binary operator>: type
A: sunday: day of week
A: monday: day of week
A: tuesday: day of week
A: wednesday: day of week
A: october: month
A: november: month
A: december: month
A: month <integer>: month
A: month <string>: month
A: system x32 file <string>: file
A: system x64 file <string>: file
A: registry: registry
A: native registry: registry
A: x32 registry: registry
A: x64 registry: registry
A: key <string> of <registry>: registry key
Usually I start off with the Introspectors, and move on to the Inspector Guide, Inspector List, or the Inspector Search pages from there.