VB Script date formats "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS"

Question

As title surgest I need to fomat the now () function to display on the format "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS"

I did have a play about trying to split it out but this drops leading zeros that I need to retain

example below mydt was "27/02/2015 13:02:27"

mydt = now() 

MSGBOX Year(mydt)& Month(mydt)& Day(mydt)& Hour(mydt)& Minute(mydt)& second(mydt)

this returns "201522713227"

i need it to return "20150227130227" i could use a if < 10 but there must be a slicker way

@Ekkehard.Horner - likely somthing you will be able to assist with? — Mike Harris, Feb 27 '15 at 13:13

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '15 at 11:12

Thanks to @Ekkehard.Horner and @Bagger

I have reviewed your advice and have chosen to go with the below, adapted for my needs.

I have chosen this one as it is a lot more useable/adaptable I can swap and change date formats as required.

Dim g_oSB : Set g_oSB = CreateObject("System.Text.StringBuilder")

Function sprintf(sFmt, aData)
   g_oSB.AppendFormat_4 sFmt, (aData)
   sprintf = g_oSB.ToString()
   g_oSB.Length = 0
End Function

'-------------------------------------------------------------------

Dim dt : dt = now()

WScript.Echo sprintf("{0:yyyyMMddhhmmss}", Array(dt))

This returns the value in required format yyyyMMddhhmmss

20150302110727

If you just require date you would simply change the sprintf

sprintf("{0:yyyyMMdd}", Array(dt))

Just want the time

sprintf("{0:hhmmss}", Array(dt))

and so on.....

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '17 at 11:26

Here is my full method I used to make it nice. Good for parsing the data for SQL.

function getDateFormatedWithDash(DateVal)
    rtnDateStr = year(DateVal)
    m=month(DateVal)
    d=day(DateVal)
    h=Hour(DateVal)
    Min=Minute(DateVal)
    sec=second(DateVal)

    if month(DateVal)<10 then
        m="0"&month(DateVal)
    end if

    if day(DateVal)<10 then
        d="0"&day(DateVal)
    end if

    if Hour(DateVal)<10 then
        h="0"&Hour(DateVal)
    end if  

    if Minute(DateVal)<10 then
        Min="0"&Minute(DateVal)
    end if  

    if second(DateVal)<10 then
        sec="0"&second(DateVal)
    end if


    rtnDateStr = rtnDateStr&"-"&m&"-"&d&" "&h&":"&Min&":"&sec
    getDateFormatedWithDash=rtnDateStr
end function

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 04 '19 at 15:18

Old post but was looking and stumbled on this. Ended up going with the following example that can also be used as a one-liner...

wscript.echo DateString(now())

Function DateString(dDate)
    DateString = Year(dDate)& right("0" & Month(dDate),2) & right("0" & Day(dDate),2) & right("0" & Hour(dDate),2) & right("0" & Minute(dDate),2) & right("0" & second(dDate),2)
End Function

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 27 '15 at 20:26

This works, you could also use regex

mydt = now() 
wscript.echo (Month(mydt))
mm = add0( Month(mydt))
dd = add0( Day(mydt))
hh = add0( Hour(mydt))
mn = add0( Minute(mydt))
ss = add0( second(mydt))

MSGBOX Year(mydt)& mm & dd & hh & mn & ss

Function add0 (testIn)
 Select Case Len(testIn) < 2
   CASE TRUE
     add0 = "0" & testIn
   Case Else
     add0 = testIn
  End Select      
End Function

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 27 '15 at 21:40

Here is a regex example

  mydt = now()
Set regEx = New RegExp
  With regEx
  .Pattern = "\b\d\b"
  .IgnoreCase = True
  .Global = True
 End With

wscript.echo  Year(mydt)& _
  regEx.Replace(Month(mydt),"0" Month(mydt)) & _
  regEx.Replace(Day(mydt),"0" & Day(mydt)) &_
  regEx.Replace(Hour(mydt),"0" & Hour(mydt)) &_
  regEx.Replace(Minute(mydt),"0" & Minute(mydt)) & _ 
  regEx.Replace(second(mydt),"0" & second(mydt))

Set RegularExpressionObject = nothing

VB Script date formats "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS"

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