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Format Dates by Charles
Carroll
The built-in date functions (described
in next paragraph) are pretty lame. The holy grail of data formatting is at:
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/112098-2.shtml
http://www.learnasp.com/iishelp/VBScript/htm/vbs109.htm
are the official online docs for the FormatDateTime function. The easiest way to demonstrate formatting dates
is just have some sample code that tries every permutation of the command.
filename=/learn/test/formatdates.asp
<html><head>
<title>formatdates.asp</title>
</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><html>
<%'My ASP program that formats dates
response.write "<hr>"
for counter=0 to 4
currentdate=now()
response.write "today is..." & "<br>"
response.write currentdate & "<P>"
select case counter
case 0
whichformat="vbgeneraldate"
case 1
whichformat="vblongdate"
case 2
whichformat="vbshortdate"
case 3
whichformat="vblongtime"
case 4
whichformat="vbshorttime"
end select
response.write "FormatDate(now()," & whichformat & ")="
response.write Formatdatetime(currentdate,counter) & "<P><HR>"
next%>
</body></html>
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