User Guide

622 Chapter 3: ColdFusion Functions
Usage
This function uses Java standard locale formatting rules on all platforms.
When passing date/time value as a string, enclose it in quotation marks. Otherwise, it is
interpreted as a number representation of a date/time object.
To calculate a difference between time zones, use the
GetTimeZoneInfo function.
To set the default display format of date, time, number, and currency values, use the
SetLocale
function.
If no seconds value is passed to this function, and the mask value is
s, the default output seconds
format is one zero; for example,
lstimeformat(6:39, "h:m:s") returns 6:39:0. If the mask
value is
ss, it returns 6:39:00.
Example
<h3>LSTimeFormat Example</h3>
<p>LSTimeFormat returns a time value using the locale convention.
<!--- loop through a list of locales and show time values --->
<cfloop LIST = "#Server.Coldfusion.SupportedLocales#"
index = "locale" delimiters = ",">
<cfset oldlocale = SetLocale(locale)>
<cfoutput><p><B><I>#locale#</I></B><br>
#LSTimeFormat(Now())#<br>
#LSTimeFormat(Now(), ‘hh:mm:ss’)#<br>
#LSTimeFormat(Now(), ‘hh:mm:sst’)#<br>
#LSTimeFormat(Now(), ‘hh:mm:sstt’)#<br>
#LSTimeFormat(Now(), ‘HH:mm:ss’)#<br>
<hr noshade>
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>