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Writing the current day and time

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Topic: Writing the current day and time

Posted By: betheball
Subject: Writing the current day and time
Date Posted: 23 August 2003 at 12:42pm

This will be simple for many of you, but I am very much a VB and ASP rookie. I want to display on my page the current day of the week and time. I know how to use

<% Response.write Now() %>

But my server is 2 hours ahead of me. How do I write my code to display the current time as two hours earlier than the server time. Also, what is the format so it displays like this example:

Saturday, 12:40 PM

Meaning, I just want the day of the week and I don't want to display the seconds portion of the current time.

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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 23 August 2003 at 5:26pm

try searching google for "ASP date and time functions"

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 23 August 2003 at 5:34pm

<%
servertime = now()
mytime = Dateadd("h",-2, servertime)
Response.Write mytime & "<br>"
Response.Write Formatdatetime(mytime, vblongdate)
%>

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Posted By: b_bonnett
Date Posted: 23 August 2003 at 5:46pm

Click http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/func_dateadd.asp - here for info on how to use the DateAdd function to add or subtract intervals of time from a date.

Click http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/func_formatdatetime.asp - here for info on how to use the FormatDateTime function to format the date/time to how you want it.

Blair

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