ColdFusion Programming/dates

Coldfusion can handle the creation, modification, display, and usage of dates. Setting a Date In order to set a date use the cfset function. <cfset mydate = '12/3/2006'> Displaying a Date The basic display of a date is simply to output it. <cfoutput>#mydate#</cfoutput> This would display: 12/3/2006 There is function that allows you to easily convert a date into another format. <cfoutput>#dateformat(mydate, 'yyyy/mm/dd')#</cfoutput> This would display: 2006/12/3 The options to be used here are: d: Day of the month as digits, no leading zeros dd: Day of the month as digits ddd: Day of the week, abbr. dddd: Day of the week, name m: Month as digits, no leading zero mm: Month as digits mmm: Month as abbr. mmmm: Month as name. y: Year - last two digits, no leading zeros yy: Year - last two digits yyyy: Year - four digits The options can be separated by - / , or space to create the format that you want. Modifying a date If we want to add 5 days to today we would use this function. <cfset todayplus5 = dateadd('d', 5, now())> The options for dateadd are: yyyy: Year q: Quarter m: Month y: Day of year d: Day w: Weekday ww: Week h: Hour n: Minute (remember m is for month not minute) s: Second