DateTime Format problem

Question

I am using CreateODBCDateTime() function to create Simple date time format as
(mm/dd/yyyy- h:mm tt).  But, when I am dumping the file, format is changing to
{ts '2011-08-06 00:00:00'} . I want it to appear as formated. I have used DateFormat() along with CreateODBCDateTime().
In the real form the date and time are appering as formated.Please help. Thanks in advance.
Vijay.

Answer 1

Hi,
CreateODBCDateTime() doesn't do any formatting for you, it creates an ODBCDateTime object. So when you output that object something like {ts '2011-08-06 00:00:00'} is what you get.
If you want to format dates/times for display purposes you need to use the DateFormat() and TimeFormat() functions. So something like
#DateFormat(yourDateTimeObject, "mm/dd/yyyy")# - #TimeFormat(yourDateTimeObject, "h:mm tt")#
Will give you a formatted date and time.
Hope this helps,
Richard