Description

Creates an ODBC date object.

Returns

A date object, in normalized ODBC date format.

Category

Date and time functions

Function syntax

CreateODBCDate(date)

See also

CreateDate, CreateODBCDateTime

Parameters

Usage

This function does not parse or validate values. To ensure that dates are entered and processed correctly (for example, to ensure that a day/month/year entry is not confused with a month/day/year entry, and so on), Adobe recommends that you parse entered dates with the DateFormat function, using the mm-dd-yyyy mask, into three elements. Ensure that values are within appropriate ranges; for example, to validate a month value, use the attributes validate = "integer" and range = "1,12".

Example

<h3>CreateODBCDate Example</h3>
<cfif IsDefined("form.year")>
<p>Your date value, generated with CreateDateTime:</p>
<cfset yourDate = CreateDateTime(form.year, form.month, form.day, form.hour,
    form.minute, form.second)>
<cfoutput>
<ul>
    <li>Formatted with CreateDate: #CreateDate(form.year, form.month, form.day)#</li>
    <li>Formatted with CreateDateTime: 
        #CreateDateTime(form.year, form.month, form.day, form.hour, form.minute,
        form.second)#</li>
    <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDate: #CreateODBCDate(yourDate)#</li>
    <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDateTime: #CreateODBCDateTime(yourDate)#</li>
</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>
    <li>Formatted with CreateDateTime and DateFormat: 
        #DateFormat(CreateDateTime(form.year, form.month, form.day, form.hour,
        form.minute, form.second))#</li>
    <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDate and DateFormat: 
        #DateFormat(CreateODBCDate(yourDate), "mmmm d, yyyy")#</li>
    <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDateTime and DateFormat: 
        #DateFormat(CreateODBCDateTime(yourDate), "d/m/yy")#</li>
</ul>
</cfoutput>
</cfif>
<cfform action="createodbcdate.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" range="1,12" 
        message="Please enter a month (1-12)" validate="integer" 
        required="Yes">
Day        <cfinput type="Text" name="day" value="8" range="1,31" 
        message="Please enter a day of the month (1-31)" validate="integer" 
        required="Yes">
Hour        <cfinput type="Text" NAME="hour" value="16" range="0,23" 
        message="You must enter an hour (0-23)" validate="integer" 
        required="Yes">
Minute        <cfinput type="Text" name="minute" value="12" range="0,59" 
        message="You must enter a minute value (0-59)" validate="integer" 
        required="Yes">
Second        <cfinput type="Text" name="second" value="0" range="0,59" 
        message="You must enter a value for seconds (0-59)" validate="integer" 
        required="Yes">
</pre>
<p><input type="Submit" name=""> <input type="Reset">
</cfform>