Small things like formatting a date takes much of a coder's time. So, here is the code that lets you display beautiful date formats wihtout any string or date manipulation. The formats like "22 December, 2002" , "22 Decemeber" , "Friday, 22 December" , "Friday, 22 December, 2002"
can easily be displayed just by passing the date and some boolean variables to the function
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' Name: Custom date display
' Description:Small things like formatting a date takes much of a coder's time. So, here is the code that lets you display beautiful date formats wihtout any string or date manipulation. The formats like "22 December, 2002" , "22 Decemeber" , "Friday, 22 December" , "Friday, 22 December, 2002"
can easily be displayed just by passing the date and some boolean variables to the function
' By: Kapil Bhagia
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' Inputs:Takes three inputs:
1. The date
2. Boolean variable whether to show the day(Friday) or not
3. Boolean variable whether to show the year or not
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' Returns:The custom date
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'This code is copyrighted and has' limited warranties.Please see http://www.Planet-Source-Code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=8087&lngWId=4'for details.'**************************************
function CustomDate(dtDate, blShowDay, blShowYear)
dim dtTempDate
dtTempDate = FormatDateTime(dtDate,1)
if not blShowDay then
dtTempDate = right(FormatDateTime(dtDate,1),len(dtdate)-(instr(1,",",dtDate)+4))
end if
if not blShowYear then
dtTempDate = left(dtTempDate,len(dtTempDate)-6)
end if
CustomDate = dtTempDate
end function
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