VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v6.02, by Herong Yang
Date and Time Data Literals
This section provides rules on writing date and time literals, characters enclosed in hash signs. VBScript support several formats for the date string like ISO format and US format.
In the previous section, we learned that a date literal is a string representing a date and/or time enclosed in hash signs (#).
Here are some details about how to write a date and/or time literal:
Here is a tutorial example on how to write date and time in different formats:
<html> <body> <!-- data_time_literal.html - Copyright (c) 1998 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved. --> <pre> <script language="vbscript"> document.writeln("#31-Dec-1999# = " & (#31-Dec-1999#)) document.writeln("#21:26:00# = " & (#21:26:00#)) ' document.writeln("#21:26:00.123# = " & (#21:26:00.123#)) document.writeln("#31-Dec-1999 21:26:00# = " _ & (#31-Dec-1999 21:26:00#)) document.writeln() document.writeln("ISO format:") document.writeln("#1999-12-31 21:26:00# = " _ & (#1999-12-31 21:26:00#)) document.writeln() document.writeln("US format:") document.writeln("#12/31/1999 9:26:00 PM# = " _ & (#12/31/1999 9:26:00 PM#)) </script> </pre> </body> </html>
Here is the output of the sample script:
#31-Dec-1999# = 12/31/1999 #21:26:00# = 9:26:00 PM #31-Dec-1999 21:26:00# = 12/31/1999 9:26:00 PM ISO format: #1999-12-31 21:26:00# = 12/31/1999 9:26:00 PM US format: #12/31/1999 9:26:00 PM# = 12/31/1999 9:26:00 PM
Notice that the host environment is using the US format as the default format.
Table of Contents
Introduction of VBScript - Visual Basic Scripting Edition
►Variant Data Type, Subtypes, and Literals
"Variant" - Data Type and Subtypes
Numeric Comparison Operations and Logical Operations
String Operations - Concatenation and Comparison
Variable Declaration and Assignment Statement
Expression and Order of Operation Precedence
Statement Syntax and Statement Types
Array Data Type and Related Statements
Array References and Array Assignment Statements
Conditional Statements - "If ... Then" and "Select Case"
Loop Statements - "For", "While", and "Do"
"Function" and "Sub" Procedures
Inspecting Variables Received in Procedures
Error Handling Flag and the "Err" Object
Regular Expression Pattern Match and Replacement
scrrun.dll - Scripting Runtime DLL Library
IE Web Browser Supporting VBScript