> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 2:12 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Timezone conversion
> 
> Jim Davis wrote:
> > I'm (still) working on an ISO 8601 date parser.  I want to convert at
> least
> > the formats described here:
> 
> well there are a handful or two of java ones (from nasa, w3c, & the
> supreme overkill of joda-time) & i vaguely recall a function on cflib
> that does this.

For the moment this is being done in JavaScript - but the same code will be
converted to CF afterwards.
 
> > Any pointers?
> 
> move that date to UTC (dateAdd its offset *-1.00 watching out that
> dateAdd function accepts integers), then to your timezone (dateAdd your
> tz offset to that UTC date). this might be of interest:

That's what I assumed... but I thought there must be some clever math to do
it without the interim conversion...

Ah well... that'll work.  It's just not very elegant.

Jim Davis





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