http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T18:10:37 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt09.htm#22467 The function dateformat is for that purpose... Reading through the function names, its fairly obvious but...<br /><br />#DateFormat(now(),"mmmm, dd, yyyy")# would return October 15, 2004 (right now anyway). ThisIsMe 0 0 2004-10-15T09:30:19 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt09.htm#647 A general overview on Date conversion (specifically, converting a data string extracted from a database to a human-readable format) would be helpful on this page. tedmasterweb 0 0 2003-04-14T13:46:00