ColdFusion Zeus POTW – Extra edition…

Ok, I know I did a Zeus POTW earlier this week, but I had to share this little gem. This is another small thing – a simple function – and something that’s been possible via a CFLib UDF for years. That being said – when I saw this show up in the latest Zeus build today, I had to share.

If you’ve ever needed to format a date and a time, you know that it requires two calls, ala:


<cfoutput>
#dateFormat(now())# #timeFormat(now())#
</cfoutput>


Zeus adds dateTimeFormat to combine this into one call:


<cfoutput>
#dateTimeFormat(now())#<br />
</cfoutput>


For formatting, the mask is slightly different than before. Masks are based on SimpleDateFormat from Java. So for example:


<cfoutput>
#dateTimeFormat(now(), "MMMM d, yyyy h:mm a")#<br />
</cfoutput>


Yeah, ok, not Earth-shattering, but this was one of a few new functions released in the latest Zeus build that were things I’ve seen requested for years.