I'm sure there's some blindingly obvious thing I'm doing wrong here, but I can't see it. Any ideas would be extremely helpful.
<cffunction name="dateConverter"> <cfargument name="strDate" required="yes"> <cfargument name="strFormat" required = "yes"> <cfset var rtnDate = createDate(1900,1,1)> <cfif arguments.strFormat is "ddmmmyyyy"> <!--- example: 31jan2012 ---> <cfset var dateParts = RefindNoCase('([0-9]{1,2})([a-z]{3,3})([0-9]{4,4})',arguments.strDate,1,true)> <cfif dateparts.pos[2] neq 0> <cfset var theDate = {}> <cfset theDate.days = mid(arguments.strDate,dateParts.pos[2],dateParts.len[2])> <cfset theDate.month = mid(arguments.strDate,dateParts.pos[3],dateParts.len[3])> <cfset var theMonthsList = 'jan,feb,mar,apr,may,jun,jul,aug,sep,nov,oct,dec'> <cfset theDate.monthNumber = ListFind(theMonthsList,theDate.month)> <cfset theDate.year = mid(arguments.strDate,dateParts.pos[4],dateParts.len[4])> <cfset rtnDate = createDate(theDate.year, theDate.monthNumber, theDate.days)> </cfif> </cfif> <cfreturn rtnDate> </cffunction> <cfset theDate = "12oct2012"> <cfoutput>#dateConverter(theDate,'ddmmmyyyy')#</cfoutput> gives me (in CF 9.0.1) an extremely unhelpful error (line 37 in the stack trace below is the cfset rtnDate line towards the end of the above function: structMessageMONTHStackTracejava.lang.IllegalArgumentException: MONTH at java.util.GregorianCalendar.computeTime(GregorianCalendar.java:2482) at java.util.Calendar.updateTime(Calendar.java:2469) at java.util.Calendar.getTimeInMillis(Calendar.java:1088) at java.util.Calendar.getTime(Calendar.java:1061) at coldfusion.util.DateUtils.createDate(DateUtils.java:959) at coldfusion.runtime.CFPage.CreateDate(CFPage.java:1009) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441$funcDATECONVERTER.runFunction(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:37) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:472) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ArgumentCollectionFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:368) at coldfusion.filter.FunctionAccessFilter.invoke(FunctionAccessFilter.java:55) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:321) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:220) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:2582) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor2(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1251) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor11(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1242) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor12(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1156) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor13(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1154) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor14(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1146) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor24(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1137) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor32(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:13) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441.runPage(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:12) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:231) at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:416) at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65) at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:360) at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48) at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40) at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:94) at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) at coldfusion.filter.BrowserDebugFilter.invoke(BrowserDebugFilter.java:79) at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28) at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62) at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:200) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286) at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543) at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203) at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428) at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66) -- Howard Fore, 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