Date Formatting 101:

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I have watched people add 60-80 lines of code to produce "Today's Date" on a site, even more lines for Javascript and it doesn't even work on Leap years. If you're on an IIS server then you can use these simple tricks.

Samples of simple 1 line code, which formats dates. (ASP code is for IIS servers only.)

Long date format:
Actual code: <%=FormatDateTime(Now(), 1)%>
Output: Friday, November 21, 2008

Or maybe numeric (short) format:
Actual code: <%=FormatDateTime(Now(), 2)%>
Output: 11/21/2008

Do you need the current time only? (long format)
Actual code: <%=FormatDateTime(Now(), 3)%>
Output: 5:10:14 AM

 

Now lets look at the "Date" and "DatePart" Function:

The straight "Date"
Actual code: <%=Date()%>
Output: 11/21/2008

What week of the year is it? - Using "DatePart" this time, which returns integer results:
Actual code: <%=DatePart("WW", Now())%>
Output: 47
Options: "YYYY" Year; "Q" Quarter; "M" Month; "Y" Day Of Year; "D" Day; "W" WeekDay; "WW" Week Of Year; "H" Hour; "N" Minute; "S" Second

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