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() 07/09/2010
Time() 08:26:22
FormatDateTime(sDate, 1) 07 September 2010
FormatDateTime(sDate, 2) 07/09/2010
FormatDateTime(sDate, 3) 08:26:22
FormatDateTime(sDate, 4) 08:26

Time formatting

Second(sDate) 22
Minute(sDate) 26
Hour(sDate) 8

Date formatting

Day(sDate) 7
WeekDay(sDate) 3
WeekDayName(WeekDay(sDate)) Tuesday
Month(sDate) 9
MonthName(Month(sDate)) September
Year(sDate) 2010

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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