| CREATEDATE | |
| Description
Creates a date/time object. |
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| Returns
A date/time value. |
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| Category
Date and time functions |
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Function syntaxCreateDate(year, month, day) |
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| See also
CreateDateTime, CreateODBCDate; "Date-time functions and queries when ODBC is not supported" in Chapter 3, "Using ColdFusion Variables" in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide |
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| Parameters
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| Usage
CreateDate is a subset of CreateDateTime. The time in the returned object is set to 00:00:00. |
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Example<h3>CreateDate Example</h3>
<CFIF IsDefined("form.year")>
<p>Your date value, generated with CreateDate:
<CFSET yourDate = CreateDate(form.year, form.month, form.day)>
<cfoutput>
<ul>
<li>Formatted with CreateDate: #CreateDate(form.year, form.month, form.day)#
<li>Formatted with CreateDateTime: #CreateDateTime(form.year, form.month,
form.day, 12,13,0)#
<li>Formatted with CreateODBCDate: #CreateODBCDate(yourDate)#
<li>Formatted with CreateODBCDateTime: #CreateODBCDateTime(yourDate)#
</ul>
<p>The same value can be formatted with DateFormat:
<ul>
<li>Formatted with CreateDate and DateFormat:
#DateFormat(CreateDate(form.year, form.month, form.day), "mmm-dd-
yyyy")#
<li>Formatted with CreateDateTime and DateFormat:
#DateFormat(CreateDateTime(form.year, form.month, form.day, 12,13,0))#
<li>Formatted with CreateODBCDate and DateFormat:
#DateFormat(CreateODBCDate(yourDate), "mmmm d, yyyy")#
<li>Formatted with CreateODBCDateTime and DateFormat:
#DateFormat(CreateODBCDateTime(yourDate), "d/m/yy")#
</ul>
</cfoutput>
</CFIF>
<CFFORM ACTION="createdate.cfm" METHOD="POST">
<p>Enter the year, month and day, as integers:
<PRE>
Year <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="year" VALUE="1998" VALIDATE="integer"
REQUIRED="Yes">
Month <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="month" VALUE="6" VALIDATE="integer"
REQUIRED="Yes">
Day <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="day" VALUE="8" VALIDATE="integer"
REQUIRED="Yes">
</PRE>
<p><INPUT TYPE="Submit" NAME=""> <INPUT TYPE="RESET">
</cfform>
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| YEAR | |
| MONTH | |
| DAY | |