Date and time formatting

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Let's start by storing the current date and time in a variable called sDate.

<%
  sDate = Now()
%>

Now we have the date stored in this variable, we can format it in a number of different ways:

General formatting

Date() 19/11/2008
Time() 23:48:46
FormatDateTime(sDate, 1) 19 November 2008
FormatDateTime(sDate, 2) 19/11/2008
FormatDateTime(sDate, 3) 23:48:46
FormatDateTime(sDate, 4) 23:48

Time formatting

Second(sDate) 46
Minute(sDate) 48
Hour(sDate) 23

Date formatting

Day(sDate) 19
WeekDay(sDate) 4
WeekDayName(WeekDay(sDate)) Wednesday
Month(sDate) 11
MonthName(Month(sDate)) November
Year(sDate) 2008

So now we can display the date and time in any format we want to. In the next article we'll learn how to add time intervals to a date using the DateAdd function.

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