I've gotten into the habit of working with dates and times using whole numbers and fractions rather than the many built in CF functions for working with date/time variables.
For instance, to create the time one hour from now: <cfset later = Now() + 1/24> Or to get midnight seven days from now: <cfset midnight = Int(Now()) + 7> Or exactly 36 hours prior to some date/time: <cfset then = mydata.dtfield - 1.5> First, is CF's internal representation of dates and times on *nix systems similar to the implementation under NT? That is, using floating point numbers representing a number of days past some baseline? Secondly, any opinions on whether this going to come back and bite me in the butt when some future release of CF comes out? I know the date/time functions isolate the programmer from the internal representation of these values, but using things like CreateDate() and DateDiff() and CreateTimeSpan() is a pain when much simpler shortcuts are available. Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
