It's not always natural to read a date as 5/13/05. So with this ASP function, you can modify and re-deliver a date, in a format that we humans are most comfortable reading and referring to. It's called niceDate().
If the date was "05/31/2004"
response.write(niceDate(date()))
would print:
Mon May 31, 2004
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function niceDate( dt, excludeDay )
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if not isDate( dt ) then
niceDate = ""
exit function
end if
dim d
d = ""
select case Weekday( dt )
case 1:
d = "Sun "
case 2:
d = "Mon "
case 3:
d = "Tues "
case 4:
d = "Wed "
case 5:
d = "Thur "
case 6:
d = "Fri "
case 7:
d = "Sat "
end select
if typeName( excludeDay ) = "Boolean" then
if excludeDay then d = ""
end if
d = d & MonthName( Month( dt ), true ) & " " & Day( dt ) & ", " & Year( dt ) 'no carriage return here
niceDate = d
end function