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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=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>