Creates a date/time object.

A date/time value.

Date and time functions

CreateDate(year, month, day)

CreateDateTime, CreateODBCDate; "Date-time functions and queries when ODBC is not supported" in Chapter 3, "Using ColdFusion Variables" in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide

CreateDate is a subset of CreateDateTime.

The time in the returned object is set to 00:00:00.

<h3>CreateDate Example</h3>
<CFIF IsDefined("form.year")>
<p>Your date value, generated with CreateDate:
<CFSET yourDate = CreateDate(form.year, form.month, form.day)>
<cfoutput>
<ul>
   <li>Formatted with CreateDate: #CreateDate(form.year, form.month, form.day)#
   <li>Formatted with CreateDateTime: #CreateDateTime(form.year, form.month,
form.day, 12,13,0)#
   <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDate: #CreateODBCDate(yourDate)#
   <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDateTime: #CreateODBCDateTime(yourDate)#
</ul>

<p>The same value can be formatted with DateFormat:
<ul>
   <li>Formatted with CreateDate and DateFormat: 
         #DateFormat(CreateDate(form.year, form.month, form.day), "mmm-dd-
yyyy")#
   <li>Formatted with CreateDateTime and DateFormat: 
         #DateFormat(CreateDateTime(form.year, form.month, form.day, 12,13,0))#
   <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDate and DateFormat: 
         #DateFormat(CreateODBCDate(yourDate), "mmmm d, yyyy")#
   <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDateTime and DateFormat: 
         #DateFormat(CreateODBCDateTime(yourDate), "d/m/yy")#
</ul>
</cfoutput>
</CFIF>
<CFFORM ACTION="createdate.cfm" METHOD="POST">
<p>Enter the year, month and day, as integers:
<PRE>
Year   <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="year" VALUE="1998" VALIDATE="integer" 
      REQUIRED="Yes">
Month   <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="month" VALUE="6" VALIDATE="integer" 
      REQUIRED="Yes">
Day   <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="day" VALUE="8" VALIDATE="integer" 
      REQUIRED="Yes">
</PRE>
<p><INPUT TYPE="Submit" NAME=""> <INPUT TYPE="RESET">
</cfform>