CreateDate

Description

Returns a valid date/time object.

Syntax

CreateDate(year, month, day)

Parameters

Parameter

Description

year
Number in the range 100 - 9999. Year values 0-29 are interpreted as 21^st century dates. Year values 30-99 are interpreted as 20^th century dates.

month
Number in the range 1 (January)-12 (December)

day
Number in the range 1-31

Parameter	Description
year	Number in the range 100 - 9999. Year values 0-29 are interpreted as 21^st century dates. Year values 30-99 are interpreted as 20^th century dates.
month	Number in the range 1 (January)-12 (December)
day	Number in the range 1-31

Usage

CreateDate is a subset of CreateDateTime.

Time in the returned object is set to 00:00:00.

Example

<!---------------------------------------------------------
This example shows how to use CreateDate, CreateDateTime, and createODBCdate 
----------------------------------------------------------->
<html>

<head>
<title> CreateDate Example</title>
</head>

<basefont face = "Arial, Helvetica" size = 2>
<body bgcolor = "#FFFFD5">

<H3>CreateDate Example</H3>

<cfif IsDefined("FORM.year")>
Your date value, presented using different CF date functions:
<cfset yourDate = CreateDate(FORM.year, FORM.month, FORM.day)>

<cfoutput>
<UL>
  <LI>Built with CreateDate: #CreateDate(FORM.year, FORM.month,
      FORM.day)#
  <LI>Built with CreateDateTime: #CreateDateTime(FORM.year, FORM.month,
      FORM.day, 12,13,0)#
  <LI>Built with CreateODBCDate: #CreateODBCDate(yourDate)#
  <LI>Built with CreateODBCDateTime: #CreateODBCDateTime(yourDate)#
</UL>

<P>The same value can be formatted with dateFormat:
<UL>
  <LI>Built with CreateDate: #DateFormat(CreateDate(FORM.year,
      FORM.month, FORM.day), "mmm-dd-yyyy")#
  <LI>Built with CreateDateTime: #DateFormat(CreateDateTime(FORM.year,
      FORM.month, FORM.day, 12,13,0))#
  <LI>Built with CreateODBCDate: #DateFormat(CreateODBCDate(yourDate),
      "mmmm d, yyyy")#
  <LI>Built with CreateODBCDateTime:
      #DateFormat(CreateODBCDateTime(yourDate), "d/m/yy")#
</UL>

</cfoutput>
</cfif>

<cfform action = "createdate.cfm" method = "POST">
<P>Please enter the year, month and day in integer format for 
the date value you would like to view:
<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>


</body>
</html>