The time and date are two of the many built-in functions of ASP. Built-in functions associated with, or can be use with, time and date are:

• now - display current time & date information, e.g. 5/14/02 10:10:15AM.
• hour - use hour(now) to get a number from 0 to 23.
• minute - use minute(now) to get a number from 0 to 59.
• second - use second(now) to get a number from 0 to 59.
• day - use day(now) to get a number from 1 to 31.
• year - use day(now) to get a 4 digit year, e.g. 2002. You can change this to show only the last two digits.
• month - use month(now) to get a number from 1 to 12.
• monthname - use monthname(month(now)) to get the name of the month.
• weekday - use weekday(now) to get a number from 1 to 7 where 1 is Sunday and 7 is Saturday.
• weekdayname - use weekdayname(weekday(now)) to get the name of the day.

All of these can be shown on the web page by using the equal sign (=) before the function name. For example,

• <% =now %>
• <% =day %>

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The equal sign (=) tells the server to display the function or variable.

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