SendingDate (FIX tag 51)

LocalMktDateFIX 4.2

SendingDate (tag 51) is a LocalMktDate field defined in FIX 4.2. It is defined in the FIX 4.2 dictionary but is not referenced by any message in it, so no message can legitimately carry it.

At a glance

Tag: 51
Name: SendingDate
Datatype: LocalMktDate (String)
Format: YYYYMMDD
Dialects: FIX 4.2
Messages: 0

What the specification says

No longer used. Included here for reference to prior versions.

Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.

A real message using tag 51

No decoded example

No decoded example is shown because no message in this dictionary references this field — there is no valid message that could carry it. Rather than invent one, we say so.

Wire format

A calendar date in the market's local timezone, with no time component and no offset. @boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string; format rules are checked by validate(), which reports validate/invalid-value rather than throwing.

Read tag 51 in TypeScript

decode.tsts

import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix42";const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);const field = message.fields[51];field?.name;   // "SendingDate"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a string

Decode this in your own code

The same engine that produced the decoded example above is an Apache-2.0 npm package with zero runtime dependencies. It runs in Node and in the browser, and parse() returns problems as data instead of throwing.

npm i @boarteam/fix @boarteam/fix-dict-fix42

Try the decoder Source on GitHub