ColdFusion 9.0 Resources

Day

Description

Determines the day of the month, in a date.

Returns

The ordinal for the day of the month, ranging from 1 to 31.

Function syntax

Day("date")

Parameters

Parameter	Description
`date`	Date/time object, in the range 100 AD–9999 AD.

Usage

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

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

Example

<h3>Day Example</h3> 
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.year")> 
    <p>More information about your date: 
    <cfset yourDate = CreateDate(FORM.year, FORM.month, FORM.day)> 
    <cfoutput> 
        <p>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(yourDate))>This is a leap year 
                <cfelse>This is not a leap year</cfif> 
    </cfoutput> 
</cfif>

Day