Abbreviating the year in ASP - asp-classic

Question

I am working on a calendar application and I want to display the date such as: mm/dd/yy. The reason for this is because on mobile devices some of my dates are getting recognized as phone numbers when it is in mm/dd/yyyy. I couldn't find a VBScript function to accomplish this so I tried it with the following code:
listyear = Year(strlistdate)
listyearabbr = Right(listyear, 2)
strlistdate = Replace(strlistdate, listyear, listyearabbr)
Where strlistdate is the initial date returned from the database. I then display the date using Response.write("<td>" &FormatDateTime(strlistdate,2)&"</td>")
This didn't work and I was wondering if someone could give me a few pointers on how to achieve this.
Thanks

Answer 1

I don't think that this is a good approach, because you'll end up returning the same date format for all locales, but you could do this:
response.write(Month(strlistdate) & "/" & Day(strlistdate) & "/" & Right(Year(strlistdate),2))
Anytime you use FormatDateTime, it will create a year based on the definition stored on the server. If the server can be set to mm/dd/yy, then you can get the output you want without doing any of the above.
Also, look into the format function. You should be able to do this:
response.write(Format(strlistdate, "m/dd/y")

Answer 2

You could try this idea. I haven't used date formatting for years. Instead I construct the date field like so...
strDay = Day(Date)
strMonth = Month(Date)
strYear = Year(Date)
strHours = Hour(Now)
strMins = Minute(Now)
strSecs = Second(Now())
if len(strMonth) = 1 then
strMonth = "0" & strMonth
end if
if len(strDay) = 1 then
strDay = "0" & strDay
end if
if len(strHours) = 1 then
strHours = "0" & strHours
end if
if len(strMins) = 1 then
strMins = "0" & strMins
end if
if len(strSecs) = 1 then
strSecs = "0" & strSecs
end if
strDateAdded = strYear & "-" & strMonth & "-" & strDay
strDateAddedTime = strDateAdded & " " & strHours & ":" & strMins
Using this method you have complete control over the order and even when running your web app in different time zones, you still maintain DD/MM format... or whatever order you want such as MM-DD-YY (by reordering and trimming the year). Personally I prefer YYYY-MM-DD because sorting by ASC and DESC is a lot easier to work with, ie: easier to read because all rows will have the same number of characters like:
2013-04-01 03:15
2013-04-09 10:15
2013-04-22 07:15
2013-04-23 10:15
2013-04-23 10:60
2013-10-25 12:01
2013-10-25 12:59
Instead of:
2013-4-1 3:15
2013-4-9 10:15
2013-4-22 7:15
2013-4-23 10:15
2013-4-23 10:60
2013-10-25 12:1
2013-1-25 12:59