Visualforce Developer Guide

Introducing Visualforce
Tools for Visualforce Development
Getting a Quick Start with Visualforce
Customizing the Appearance and Output of Visualforce Pages
Standard Controllers
Standard List Controllers
Custom Controllers and Controller Extensions
Live Controller (Pilot)
Advanced Examples
Overriding Buttons, Links, and Tabs with Visualforce
Using Static Resources
Creating and Using Custom Components
Dynamic Visualforce Bindings
Dynamic Visualforce Components
Integrating Email with Visualforce
Visualforce Charting
Creating Maps with Visualforce
Render Flows with Visualforce
Templating with Visualforce
Developing Salesforce Apps with Visualforce
Adding Visualforce to a Salesforce AppExchange App
Using JavaScript in Visualforce Pages
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service (Beta)
Best Practices
Standard Component Reference
Appendices
Global Variables, Functions, and Expression Operators
Global Variables
$Action
$Api
$Asset
$Cache.Org
$Cache.Session
$Component
$ComponentLabel
$CurrentPage
$FieldSet
$Label
$Label.Site
$MessageChannel
$Network
$ObjectType
$Organization
$Page
$Permission
$Profile
$Resource
$SControl
$Setup
$Site
$System.OriginDateTime
$User
$User.UITheme and $User.UIThemeDisplayed
$UserRole
Functions
Expression Operators
Security Tips for Apex and Visualforce Development
Apex Classes Used in Visualforce Controllers
Execution Governors and Limits
Glossary
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$System.OriginDateTime

A global merge field that represents the literal value of 1900-01-01 00:00:00.

Usage

Use this global variable when performing date/time offset calculations, or to assign a literal value to a date/time field.

Example

The following example calculates the number of days that have passed since January 1, 1900: