DateFormat

Formats a datetime, date or time

Method Signature

DateFormat(date=[any], mask=[string], timezone=[string], locale=[string])

Arguments

Argument	Type	Required	Description	Default
date	any	true	The date string or object
mask	string	false	Optional format mask, or common mask. If an explicit mask is used, it should use the mask characters specified in the java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter class. In compatibility mode the legacy CFML mask characters are also supported. If a common mask is used, the following are supported: - short: equivalent to "M/d/y h:mm tt" - medium: equivalent to "MMM d, yyyy h:mm:ss tt" - long: medium followed by three-letter time zone; i.e. "MMMM d, yyyy h:mm:ss tt zzz" - full: equivalent to "dddd, MMMM d, yyyy H:mm:ss tt zz" - ISO8601/ISO: equivalent to "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX" - epoch: Total seconds of a given date (Example:1567517664) - epochms: Total milliseconds of a given date (Example:1567517664000)
timezone	string	false	Optional specific timezone to apply to the date ( if not present in the date string )
locale	string	false	Optional ISO locale string which will be used to localize the resulting date/time string

Examples

Related

• createDate

• DateCompare

• DateTimeFormat

• DayOfWeekAsString

• DayOfWeekShortAsString

• GetHTTPTimestring

• LSDateFormat

• LSDateTimeFormat

• LSDayOfWeek

• LSIsDate

• LSParseDateTime

• LSTimeFormat

• LSWeek

• MonthAsString

• MonthShortAsString

• ParseDateTime

• TimeFormat

• ToLegacyDate