Month

Description

Extracts the month value from a date/time object.

Return value

The ordinal value of the month, in the range 1 (January) - 12 (December).

Syntax

Month(date)

Parameters

Parameter Description

date
Date/time object, in the range 100 AD-9999 AD. See "How ColdFusion processes two-digit year values".

Parameter	Description
date	Date/time object, in the range 100 AD-9999 AD. See "How ColdFusion processes two-digit year values".

Usage

When passing a date/time value as a string, you must enclose it in quotation marks. Otherwise, it is interpreted as a number representation of a date/time object.

Note: You can pass the CreateDate function or the Now function as the date parameter of this function; for example: #Month(CreateDate(2001, 3, 3))#

Example

<h3>Month Example</h3>
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.year")>
More information about your date:
<cfset yourDate = CreateDate(FORM.year, FORM.month, FORM.day)>
<cfoutput>
  <p>Your date, #DateFormat(yourDate)#.
  <br>It is #DayofWeekAsString(DayOfWeek(yourDate))#, day
   #DayOfWeek(yourDate)# in the week.
  <br>This is day #Day(yourDate)# in the month of
   #MonthAsString(Month(yourDate))#, which has
   #DaysInMonth(yourDate)# days.
  <br>We are in week #Week(yourDate)# of #Year(yourDate)# 
   (day #DayofYear(yourDate)# of #DaysinYear(yourDate)#). <br>
  <cfif IsLeapYear(Year(yourDat"))>This is a leap year
    <cfelse>This is not a leap year
  </cfif>
</cfoutput>
</cfif>

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Comments

cyberdaz said on Jun 28, 2004 at 2:50 AM :

this example does not work the code is wrong variable are named incorrectlyt etc. it's rubbish

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