[thelist] ASP: Modify FormatDateTime()

[Koutoulas, Pete]

On Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:24 AM, Christian Anderson wrote:

> I'm showing the date of something on my site like:
> FormatDateTime(dt,1)
> with "dt" being a date value pulled from my database.  Is there a way
> to make it show "Thu" instead of "Thursday" and "Mar" instead of
> "March"?  I'm working with a tight space, and would like to cut down
> on the unnecessary characters.

1 is "vbLongDate" and is defined by the long date settings in the regional
settings of the server. If you have access to the server, you can change it
there. If not, you will have to parse the date yourself using some of
VBScripts other time and date functions. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/ht
ml/vtoriFunctions.asp. Good luck!

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