DAYSINMONTH  
Description

Determines the number of days in a month.

 
Returns

The number of days in the month in Date.

 
Category

Date and time functions

 
Function syntax
DaysInMonth("date")
 
See also

Day, DayOfWeek, DayOfWeekAsString, DayOfYear, DaysInYear, FirstDayOfMonth

 
Parameters

 
Usage

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

Note: You can pass the Now function or the CreateDate function as the date parameter of this function; for example: #DaysInMonth(CreateDate(2001, 3, 3))#
 
Example
<h3>DaysInMonth 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(yourDate))>This is a leap year
      <cfelse>This is not a leap year</cfif>
   </cfoutput>
</cfif>

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

DATE