Date format in ASP

[Giorgio Cervati]

Hi,
is there a way to 'force' ASP date function to return date in a given
format; I mean, my need is to force 'date()' function to give me system date
in italian format instead of english (O.S. is in english as well as locale
settings for IIS anonymous user); is there a directive or something similar
to put in ASP code?

Tnx in advance.

Giorgio

 

[Ken Schaefer]

You can set Session.LCID (or LCID in your @ directives)

Check out:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=229690

Cheers
Ken


: Hi,
: is there a way to 'force' ASP date function to return date in a given
: format; I mean, my need is to force 'date()' function to give me system
date
: in italian format instead of english (O.S. is in english as well as locale
: settings for IIS anonymous user); is there a directive or something
similar
: to put in ASP code?
:
: Tnx in advance.
:
: Giorgio
:
:

 

[Giorgio Cervati]

Thanks. It works quite good!

G.

 

[Bullschmidt]

This is a little different approach but to make a variable be in the
format of mm/dd/yyyy (and the final line of code can be modifed for
other date formats), perhaps try something like the following which you
might even make into a function:

varFld = CDate(MyVariable)

intMonth = Month(varFld)
intDay = Day(varFld)
intYr = Year(varFld)

If intMonth < 10 Then
strMonth = "0" & CStr(intMonth)
Else
strMonth = CStr(intMonth)
End If

If intDay < 10 Then
strDay = "0" & CStr(intDay)
Else
strDay = CStr(intDay)
End If

strYr = Right(CStr(intYr), 4) ' And change the 4 to 2 for 2 year dates.

varFld = CStr(strMonth & "/" & strDay & "/" & strYr)

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance ASP Web Consultant
http://www.Bullschmidt.com
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[dlbjr]

'from dlbjr

Function FormatMyDate(dtmDate)
FormatMyDate = "NAD"
If IsDate(dtmDate) Then
Dim arData(2)
arData(0 = Right("00" & Month(dtmDate),2)
arData(1) = Right("00" & Day(dtmDate),2)
arData(2) = Year(dtmDate)
FormatMyDate = Join(arData,"/")
End If
End Function

 

[Giorgio Cervati]

Well, my problem was to make my asp application 'o.s. independent'. I
mean some security patches changed IUSR anonymous user locale settings
so my application began to read date and currencies in a different way.
The way you act is quite good but it doesn't remove the basis of the
problem while the Session.LCID method does.

Many thanks.

G.