VBScript How can I Format Date?

Question

I want the date to look like MM-DD-YYYY instead of MM/DD/YYYY.

Answer 1

0 = vbGeneralDate - Default. Returns date: mm/dd/yy and time if specified: hh:mm:ss PM/AM.
1 = vbLongDate - Returns date: weekday, monthname, year
2 = vbShortDate - Returns date: mm/dd/yy
3 = vbLongTime - Returns time: hh:mm:ss PM/AM
4 = vbShortTime - Return time: hh:mm


d=CDate("2010-02-16 13:45")
document.write(FormatDateTime(d) & "<br />")
document.write(FormatDateTime(d,1) & "<br />")
document.write(FormatDateTime(d,2) & "<br />")
document.write(FormatDateTime(d,3) & "<br />")
document.write(FormatDateTime(d,4) & "<br />")

If you want to use another format you will have to create your own function and parse Month, Year, Day, etc and put them together in your preferred format.

Function myDateFormat(myDate)
    d = TwoDigits(Day(myDate))
    m = TwoDigits(Month(myDate))    
    y = Year(myDate)
    myDateFormat= m & "-" & d & "-" & y
End Function

Function TwoDigits(num)
    If(Len(num)=1) Then
        TwoDigits="0"&num
    Else
        TwoDigits=num
    End If
End Function

edit: added function to format day and month as 0n if value is less than 10.