Straight from the ColdFusion documentation Mike. Formats a date value using U.S. date formats. For international date support, use LSDateFormat <WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-6de1.html>.
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Mike Kear <afpwebwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm still testing, but it looks like at long last this problem is solved. > For those who have been following this saga, the issue is that no matter > what way I put the date into the code, it always seemed to be stored in the > database in an erratic way. For dates earlier than the 13th of the month > (and therefore ambiguous as to which is the day and which is the month in > the date string) the database would store yyyy-dd-mm and for the 13th or > later, it would store yyyy-mm-dd, which is what i wanted for all of the > dates. > > It boiled down to a code generator that i've been using without any issues > for a long time. The setter and getter for any date fields was like the > following: > > > =========================================================================================== > <cffunction name="setTransDate" access="public" returntype="void" > output="false"> > <cfargument name="TransDate" type="string" required="true" /> > <cfif isDate(arguments.TransDate)> > <cfset arguments.TransDate = dateformat(arguments.TransDate,"DD/MM/YYYY") > /> > </cfif> > <cfset variables.instance.TransDate = trim(arguments.TransDate) /> > </cffunction> > <cffunction name="getTransDate" access="public" returntype="string" > output="false"> > <cfreturn variables.instance.TransDate /> > </cffunction> > > > =========================================================================================== > > > This date formatting was apparently what's causing the problem. I'm not > sure why because I'd have thought it would either do nothing (i.e. convert > dd/mm/yyyy into dd/mm/yyyy) or correct an American format date to Australian > format date. > > But when i removed that manipulation, the problem went away. I'm a > little nervous about just using it, because I think i should know why the > former code was a problem but that will have to wait for another day. > Here's the code that seems to give me the desired result: > > > > =========================================================================================== > <cffunction name="setTransDate" access="public" returntype="void" > output="false"> > <cfargument name="TransDate" type="date" required="true" /> > <cfset variables.instance.TransDate = arguments.TransDate /> > </cffunction> > <cffunction name="getTransDate" access="public" returntype="date" > output="false"> > <cfreturn variables.instance.TransDate /> > </cffunction> > > > =========================================================================================== > > I am MOST grateful to all those people - too numerous to mention now - who > have helped me through this. Because it goes back to a code generator that > I've never had any issues with while writing maybe 100 applications, I > didn't even look at that. It was a LONG way down the list of possible > suspects. I'll write and make sure Pete Farrell is in the loop on this. > > Thank you all. > > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<cfaussie%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@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.
