simple working with dates

[mrbusy]

I would like to do some basic stuff with ASP but I'm not exactly sure the best way to get to what I want.

I have a common homepage for all users with links and other useful data on it. I would like to add timezones at the top of the page so people can quickly find out what the time is in LA or Boston at a glace. This page is served from our Exchange server running IIS.

I've done a little with ASP before, for example displaying the current date and time at the top of the page, but I don't actually manipulate that data. I almost managed get the effect I wanted by using
EST <%=hour(now)-5%>:<%=minute(now)%>
but unforuntaely this drops leading zeros so three minutes past four would be displayed 16:3, which isn't very good.

Can anyone tell me, is there any easy way for me to take the current server time, add or subtract a specific number of hours, then display it in a meaninful format?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[VBakias]

Hour(Now) & ":" & Format(Minute(Now), "00")

 

[ca8msm]

I'd suggest using the .NET framework rather than old VB functions. Something like the following should work:

lblHour.Text = System.DateTime.Now.AddHours(3).ToShortTimeString

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[BoulderBum]

Additionally, what you want to do is a built-in feature of ASP.NET. Check out the date format strings:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...s/cpguide/html/cpcondatetimeformatstrings.asp

i.e. You could do either:

EST <%=DateTime.Now.AddHours( -5 ).ToShortTimeString()%>

or

EST <%=DateTime.Now.AddHours( -5 ).ToString( "t" )%>

or use some other custom format to print it out however you'd like (see link for more).