Gareth Hughes wrote: > because of the change in US DST when using the castFromServer method. The
welcome to timezone hell: http://www.sustainablegis.com/blog/cfg11n/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=77223B6A-20ED-7DEE-2AB7FBB1F37ABD77 the older versions of that CFC used datetime objects which are subject to cf's eccentricities when it comes to datetime handling. besides the stuff i outlined in that blog entry, one of its quirks is that dateConvert() doesn't take DST into account when converting to/from UTC. and that's what castFromServer() uses: <cfreturn castFromUTC(dateConvert("local2UTC",arguments.thisDate),arguments.thisTZ)> the newer versions of that CFC (which some OS projects like machIIblog use) uses java epoch offsets instead of datetimes (again i need to give credit to spike for helping me stop over-thinking the solution). since this is kind of a big hit in terms of an application (changing data from datetimes to longs) i've let this version of the CFC "stand" & handled stuff on a case-by-case basis. > confirm/deny that the cast from server time is incorrect for EST (for > example) on the timezone.cfc test page? hmm, i guess i need to talk to my host (cfdynamics) though they are usually so good about this kind of thing i kind of forget about them ;-) > Am I supposed to manually factor in the DST difference (or is this something > else)? Thanks. review the suggested solutions in that blog entry. i understand that swapping server tz or making changes to data isn't very palatable for long established apps, so let me see if i can come up w/a workaround for the short term. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:272324 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
