How do I check if a date is in the current century?
Date comparisons are fairly easy in ColdFusion. One common task is to compare a date value to the current date and check if there is a match on the day, week, month, etc. For this entry we will consider comparing a date's century to the current century. This is a bit more complex. While ColdFusion has functions to retrieve parts of a date (seconds, minutes, day, month, etc) it does not have a function to return the century value. You can get this using a bit of math though.
Consider the following date:
<cfset d1 = createDate(2009, 1, 1)>
To get the century, you can first get the year, and then divide the value by 100, using the \ operator to round the result.
<cfoutput>
#year(d1) \ 100#
</cfoutput>
This results in 20 (technically we would call 2009 the 21st century, but we just need a unique value). You could then simply compare this value to the year(now()) to see if d1 is in the same century.
This question was written by Raymond Camden
It was last updated on May 29, 2008.