Adobe ColdFusion 8

Day

Description

Determines the day of the month, in a date.

Returns

The ordinal for the day of the month, ranging from 1 to 31.

Category

Date and time functions

Function syntax

Day("date")

See also

DayOfWeek, DayOfWeekAsString, DayOfYear, DaysInMonth, DaysInYear, FirstDayOfMonth

Parameters

Parameter

Description
date

Date/time object, in the range 100 AD-9999 AD.

Usage

When passing a date/time object as a string, you must enclose it in quotation marks. Otherwise, it is interpreted as a numeric representation of a date/time object.

Note: You can pass the CreateDate function or Now function as the date parameter of this function; for example: #Day(CreateDate(2001, 3, 3))#

Example

<h3>Day Example</h3>
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.year")>
    <p>More information about your date:
    <cfset yourDate = CreateDate(FORM.year, FORM.month, FORM.day)>
    <cfoutput>
        <p>Date: #DateFormat(yourDate)#. <br>
    It is #DayofWeekAsString(DayOfWeek(yourDate))#, 
    day #DayOfWeek(yourDate)# in the week.
        <br>This is day #Day(YourDate)# 
    in the month of #MonthAsString(Month(yourDate))#, 
    which has #DaysInMonth(yourDate)# days.
        <br>We are in week #Week(yourDate)# of #Year(YourDate)# 
         (day #DayofYear(yourDate)# of #DaysinYear(yourDate)#). 
        <br><cfif IsLeapYear(Year(yourDate))>This is a leap year
                <cfelse>This is not a leap year</cfif>
    </cfoutput>
</cfif>