ASP Format Date and Time Script

ASP has a very handy inbuild function called FormatDateTime().

Let's start with the now() function to get the current date and time into a variable

<% dim todaysDate todaysDate=now() %>

Now we can use the FormatDateTime function to format our date variable in a variety of ways.

First let's see how todaysDate appears :

<% Response.write todaysDate %>

RESULT: 2/14/2005 12:34:41 PM

Using 0 - the vbGeneralDate format creates a date as short date (if included), and time as long time.

<% Response.write FormatDateTime(todaysDate,0) %>

RESULT: 2/14/2005 12:34:41 PM

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Using 1 - the vbLongDate shows the date as long date

<% Response.write FormatDateTime(todaysDate,1) %>

RESULT: Monday, February 14, 2005

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Using 2 - the vbShortDate shows the date as short date

<% Response.write FormatDateTime(todaysDate,2) %>

RESULT: 2/14/2005

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Using 3 - the vbLongTime format shows the time as long time .

<% Response.write FormatDateTime(todaysDate,3) %>

RESULT: 12:34:41 PM

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Using 4 - the vbShortTime format creates the current time in 24 format (hh:mm)

<% Response.write FormatDateTime(todaysDate,4) %>

RESULT: 12:34

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International Date and Time

You can use the session.lcid property to change the formatting of the date and time.

For example

<%session.lcid=2057%>

will set the date and time to UK format (DD/MM/YYYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY ) Here's a list of international locales. Bear in mind that setting these will also change currency formatting.

Locale ID (LCID)	Description
1033	General Unicode
33280	Binary Order
1027	Catalan
197636	Chinese Bopomofo (Taiwan)
2052	Chinese Punctuation
133124	Chinese Stroke Count
1028	Chinese Stroke Count (Taiwan)
1050	Croatian
1029	Czech
1043	Dutch
1061	Estonian
1036	French
66615	Georgian Modern
1031	German
66567	German Phone Book
1038	Hungarian
66574	Hungarian Technical
1039	Icelandic
1040	Italian
1041	Japanese
66577	Japanese Unicode
1042	Korean
66578	Korean Unicode
1062	Latvian
1063	Lithuanian
1071	FYRO Macedonian
1044	Norwegian/Danish
1045	Polish
1046	Portuguese
1048	Romanian
1051	Slovak
1060	Slovenian
1034	Spanish (Traditional)
3082	Spanish (Spain)
1053	Swedish/Finnish
1054	Thai
2057	UK English
1058	Ukrainian
1066	Vietnamese

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