Date & Date and Time

The Date and Date and Time fields are used to make it possible for an editor to select a date or date and time when creating an item (Figure 1.1).

Figure 1.1 Date and time

When adding this item field to an item type you can set a default value under Data > Default Value in the item field settings. Accepted vallues are ‘Now’ or DD/MM/YYYY.

In frontend you can then retrieve the DateTime object via the GetDateTime()-method and work with it as per normal:

RAZOR
@inherits Dynamicweb.Rendering.ViewModelTemplate<Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageViewModel> <h3>Date Fields</h3> @{ var datefield = Model.Item.GetDateTime("Date"); var datetimefield = Model.Item.GetDateTime("DateTime"); } <table class="table table-striped"> <tr> <th>Field</th> <th>Value</th> <th>Comments</th> </tr> <!--Date--> <tr> <td>Date</td> <td> Date: @datefield.Date <br /> DayOfYear: @datefield.DayOfYear <br> DayOfWeek: @datefield.DayOfWeek </td> <td></td> </tr> <!--DateTime--> <tr> <td>DateTime</td> <td> Date: @datetimefield.Date <br /> DayOfYear: @datetimefield.DayOfYear <br> DayOfWeek: @datetimefield.DayOfWeek <br /> TimeOfDay: @datetimefield.TimeOfDay <br /> ShortDateString: @datetimefield.ToShortDateString() </td> <td></td> </tr> </table>