Do you have a relative idea what that value is? > In the same vein - watch out for datediffs where the value is too big. > CF will "roll over" the value if it goes over the maximum size of > numbers in CF. This confused the heck out of me when I was building > Death Clock (years and years and years ago). > > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:42:03 -0500, Michael Dinowitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a small tip. When doing a datediff in CF, make sure both values are > > actually dates. I just ran a datediff where the second value (the first > > date) came from a DB. The value was actually a blank and CFMX threw a > > variable does not exist null error. This was not expected as the > variables > > all existed and the only difference was that the date value was not a > date. > > > > <CFIF datediff('d', qLastOrdered.lastdate, now()) LT 180> > > > > I solved this by adding a simple test to make sure that the value was a > > date: > > <CFIF Not IsDate(qLastOrdered.lastdate) OR datediff('d', > > qLastOrdered.lastdate, now()) LT 180>
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