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In ColdFusion, I can get the current date without time (technically with the time set to 00:00:00) using CreateDate(). This is useful for comparing two dates, irrespective of time. However, this seems inefficient. For example, to get today's date, I would write:
CreateDate(Year(Now()),Month(Now()),Day(Now())
Is there a more efficient way to do this?
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Use the Now() function to obtain the current date and time from the server. Continuing onward, we can customize the date format even more by specifying a mask in the DateFormat() function. The TimeFormat() function is similar to DateFormat(), except, of course, that it returns the time.
Hence, dateformat(now(), "mm-D-yyyy") is the same as dateformat(now(), "mm-d-yyyy") when flag is set to true. By default Capital D is used to specify Day of the year. See example below. ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 3.
ddd : Day of the week as a three-letter abbreviation.
You can use dateCompare with a 3rd argument of d to only compare the date itself
dateCompare(date1, date2, 'd')
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