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quartername - script and chart function

This function returns a display value showing the months of the quarter (formatted according to the MonthNames script variable) and year with an underlying numeric value corresponding to a timestamp of the first millisecond of the first day of the quarter.

Syntax:  

QuarterName(date[, period_no[, first_month_of_year]])

Return data type: dual

Arguments:  

Argument Description
date The date to evaluate.
period_no period_no is an integer, where the value 0 indicates the quarter which contains date. Negative values in period_no indicate preceding quarters and positive values indicate succeeding quarters.
first_month_of_year If you want to work with (fiscal) years not starting in January, indicate a value between 2 and 12 in first_month_of_year.

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