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Date and time functions
Last update:
May 18, 2026
| Function | Description |
| CreateDate | Creates a date/time object. |
| CreateDateTime | Creates a date/time object. |
| CreateODBCDate | Creates an ODBC date object. |
| CreateODBCDateTime | Creates an ODBC date-time object. |
| CreateODBCTime | Creates an ODBC time object. |
| CreateTime | Creates a time variable. |
| CreateTimeSpan | Creates a date/time object that defines a time period. |
| DateAdd | Adds units of time to a date. |
| DateCompare | Performs a full date/time comparison of two dates. |
| DateConvert | Converts local time to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), or UTC to local time. |
| DateDiff | Determines the integer number of units by which date1 is less than date2. |
| DateFormat | Formats a date value using U.S. date formats. |
| DatePart | Extracts a part from a date value as a numeric. |
| DateTimeFormat | Formats a datetime value using U.S. date and time formats. |
| Day | Determines the day of the month in a date. |
| DayOfWeek | Determines the day of the week ina date. |
| DayOfWeekAsString | Determines the day of the week, in a date, as a string function. |
| DayOfYear | Determines the day of the year, ina date. |
| DaysInMonth | Determines the number of days in a month. |
| DaysInYear | Determines the number of days in a year. |
| FirstDayOfMonth | Determines the ordinal (day number, in the year) of the first day of the month in which a given date falls. |
| GetHttpTimeString | Gets the current time, in the Universal Time Code (UTC). |
| GetTickCount | Returns the current value of an internal millisecond timer. |
| GetTimeZoneInfo | Gets local time zone information for the computer on which it is called, relative to Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). |
| Hour | Gets the current hour of the day. |
| IsDate | Determines whether a string or Java object can be converted to a date/time value. |
| IsDateObject | Determines whether a value is a date/time object. |
| IsLeapYear | Determines if a year is a leap year. |
| IsNumericDate | Evaluates whether a real number is a valid representation of a date (date/time object). |
| LSDateFormat | Formats the date part of a date/time value in a locale-specific format. |
| LSIsDate | Determines whether a string is a valid representation of a date/time value in the current locale. |
| LSParseDateTime | Converts a string that is a valid date/time representation in the current locale into a date/time object. |
| LSTimeFormat | Formats the time part of a date/time string into a string in a locale-specific format. |
| Minute | Gets the value of the minute from a date/time object. |
| Month | Gets the value of the month in a date/time object. |
| MonthAsString | Determines the name of the month that corresponds to month_number. |
| Now | Gets the current date and time of the computer running the CFML server. |
| ParseDateTime | Parses a date/time string according to the English (U.S.) locale conventions. |
| Quarter | Calculates the quarter of the year in which a date falls. |
| Second | Extracts the ordinal for the second from a date/time object. |
| SetDay | Sets the day on the Date object. |
| SetHour | Sets the hour on the Date object. |
| SetMinute | Sets the minute on the Date object. |
| SetMonth | Sets the month on the Date object. |
| SetSecond | Sets the second on the Date object. |
| SetYear | Sets the year on the Date object. |
| TimeFormat | Formats a time value using US English time formatting conventions. |
| Week | Determines the week number in a year. |
| Year | Gets the year value. |
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