Output the current date

The following examples shows you how to output the current date.

#!cfm
    <html>
        <head>
            <title>Current date</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            <cfoutput>
            <p>The time is #lsdateTimeFormat(now())#</p>
            </cfoutput>
        </body>
    </html>

Executing this code you will see something like the following:

The time is 31-Jan-2038 11:12:08

The tag <cfoutput> defines for the compiler that everything within a ## is a code expression and needs to be parsed accordingly. now() is a function call that is returning a date object containing the current time, lsDateTimeFormat then converts that date to a string using "locale" specific formatting rules (default en_US).

You can define a different locale globally in the Lucee admin at "Settings/Regional". You can define a different locale for the current request in the Application.cfc file (for example: this.locale="de_CH") or with help of the function setLocale or as argument of the function call itself as follows:

#!cfm
    <html>
        <head>
            <title>Current date</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            <cfoutput>
            <p>The time is #lsDateTimeFormat(date:now(),locale:'de_CH')#</p>
            </cfoutput>
        </body>
    </html>

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Output the current date