Month

Description

Extracts the month value from a date/time object.

Returns

The ordinal value of the month, in the range 1 (January) – 12 (December).

Category

Date and time functions

Function syntax

Month(date)

See also

DatePart, MonthAsString, Quarter

Parameters

Parameter

Description

date

Date/time object, in the range 100 AD–9999 AD.

Usage

When passing a date/time value as a string, enclose it in quotation marks. Otherwise, it is interpreted as a number representation of a date/time object.

Note: You can pass the CreateDate function or the Now function as the date parameter of this function; for example: #Month(CreateDate(2001, 3, 3))#.

Example

<h3>Month Example</h3> 
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.year")> 
More information about your date: 
<cfset yourDate = CreateDate(FORM.year, FORM.month, FORM.day)> 
<cfoutput> 
    <p>Your date, #DateFormat(yourDate)#. 
    <br>It is #DayofWeekAsString(DayOfWeek(yourDate))#, day 
     #DayOfWeek(yourDate)# in the week. 
    <br>This is day #Day(yourDate)# in the month of 
     #MonthAsString(Month(yourDate))#, which has 
     #DaysInMonth(yourDate)# days. 
    <br>We are in week #Week(yourDate)# of #Year(yourDate)#  
     (day #DayofYear(yourDate)# of #DaysinYear(yourDate)#). <br> 
    <cfif IsLeapYear(Year(yourDat"))>This is a leap year 
        <cfelse>This is not a leap year 
    </cfif> 
</cfoutput> 
</cfif>