User Guide

CreateDate 419
CreateDate
Description
Creates a date/time object.
Returns
A date/time value.
Category
Date and time functions
Function syntax
CreateDate(year, month, day)
See also
CreateDateTime, CreateODBCDate
Parameters
Usage
CreateDate
is a subset of CreateDateTime.
The time in the returned object is set to 00:00:00.
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:
Parameter Description
year Integer in the range 0-9999. Integers in the range 0-29 are converted to 2000-
2029. Integers in the range 30-99 are converted to 1930-1999. You cannot
specify dates before AD 100.
month Integer in the range 1 (January) - 12 (December)
day Integer in the range 1 - 31