a couple of quick points: 1) what you "see" is a string representation of a date or time. If it's a true dateTime object, the underlying value is a decimal (starting from the Epoch time? can't remember)
2) if you're after a formatting function in CF to convert this decimal to a string that represents a time value, timeformat() may be of assistance there TimeFormat(time [, mask ]) http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00000651.htm 3) IIRC, in many cases underlying dateTime objects, while you may be interested in only the time value, also have a date aspect to them. It could be something like Jan 1 year 100 (again, memory fails me exactly) gota go. good luck barry.b On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Andrew <am2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got an excel spreadsheet which I am parsing with cfHSSF (http:// > cfhssf.riaforge.org/) > > In it are a few time fields (elapsed times, like 2 mins, 50 seconds) > which are returned as something like this: 0.00208101851852 > > Is there an easy way to convert that to minutes and seconds in CF? In > Java I can use POI to return it as a date, and then format it like > this: > > DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("m:ss.S"); > System.out.println(df.format(cell.getDateCellValue())); > > Does CF have a simple way of converting the float value to a date? I > have seen an IsNumericDate function, which returns true for this > value, but I can't see a method which allows you to create a date from > a float. Am I missing something? > > I guess I could just do it in Java if all else fails, but I was hoping > to keep it all in CF if possible. > > Thanks, > Andrew. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
