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() 06/02/2012
Time() 14:58:55
FormatDateTime(sDate, 1) 06 February 2012
FormatDateTime(sDate, 2) 06/02/2012
FormatDateTime(sDate, 3) 14:58:55
FormatDateTime(sDate, 4) 14:58

Time formatting

Second(sDate) 55
Minute(sDate) 58
Hour(sDate) 14

Date formatting

Day(sDate) 6
WeekDay(sDate) 2
WeekDayName(WeekDay(sDate)) Monday
Month(sDate) 2
MonthName(Month(sDate)) February
Year(sDate) 2012

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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