DateFormat misery
Hello everybody, I can't understand what's happenning here. I have form with a text field and a date selector that pops up when a user clicks on a img next to the text field. If I select a date from the calendar, say for example I selected this: 5/1/2004 11:04 (05 Jan. 2004), the text field is set to 5/1/2004 11:04. I'm passing this value in a url variable. On the action page when I output this url variable the value displayed is the same (5/1/2004 11:04), however if I do this: cfoutput#dateFormat(url.timestamp,'/mm/dd')#/cfoutput, the output value is 2004/05/01 when I expect it to be 2004/01/05. Can anybody tell me what's happenning here because I can't figure it out why this is happenning. I am using CFMX Best Regards, CFCODER __ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: DateFormat misery
Probably, your locale is US, so it formats a US date (mm/dd/). I always use ISO-format and if I have a text field with a date, I write a function to transform it to ISO (-mm-dd). -Original Message- From: cf coder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 27 februari 2004 12:11 To: CF-Talk Subject: DateFormat misery Hello everybody, I can't understand what's happenning here. I have form with a text field and a date selector that pops up when a user clicks on a img next to the text field. If I select a date from the calendar, say for example I selected this: 5/1/2004 11:04 (05 Jan. 2004), the text field is set to 5/1/2004 11:04. I'm passing this value in a url variable. On the action page when I output this url variable the value displayed is the same (5/1/2004 11:04), however if I do this: cfoutput#dateFormat(url.timestamp,'/mm/dd')#/cfoutput, the output value is 2004/05/01 when I expect it to be 2004/01/05. Can anybody tell me what's happenning here because I can't figure it out why this is happenning. I am using CFMX Best Regards, CFCODER __ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: DateFormat misery
On Friday 27 Feb 2004 11:11 am, cf coder wrote: if I do this: cfoutput#dateFormat(url.timestamp,'/mm/dd')#/cfoutput, What about lsDateFormat ? -- Tom Chiverton Advanced ColdFusion Programmer Tel: +44(0)1749 834997 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BlueFinger Limited Underwood Business Park Wookey Hole Road, WELLS. BA5 1AF Tel: +44 (0)1749 834900 Fax: +44 (0)1749 834901 web: www.bluefinger.com Company Reg No: 4209395 Registered Office: 2 Temple Back East, Temple Quay, BRISTOL. BS1 6EG. *** This E-mail contains confidential information for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately. You should not use, disclose, distribute or copy this communication if received in error. No binding contract will result from this e-mail until such time as a written document is signed on behalf of the company. BlueFinger Limited cannot accept responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of this message as it has been transmitted over public networks.*** [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: DateFormat misery
I've just noticed that if the date selected is 20/2/2004 11:35, dateformat correctly outputs it - 2004/02/20 (/mm/dd), but if the date selected is 5/2/2004 11:35, the output is - 2004/05/02. I have the meta tag on top of my page meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Any thoughts? Probably, your locale is US, so it formats a US date (mm/dd/). I always use ISO-format and if I have a text field with a date, I write a function to transform it to ISO (-mm-dd). [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: DateFormat misery
LSDateFormat does the trick. Thank you all for your help I've just noticed that if the date selected is 20/2/2004 11:35, dateformat correctly outputs it - 2004/02/20 (/mm/dd), but if the date selected is 5/2/2004 11:35, the output is - 2004/05/02. I have the meta tag on top of my page meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Any thoughts? Probably, your locale is US, so it formats a US date (mm/dd/). I always use ISO-format and if I have a text field with a date, I write a function to transform it to ISO (-mm-dd). [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: DateFormat misery
That's becausethe 20th month doesn't exist. It is a CF feature that it will switch day and month in a date if the month is higher than 12 (and the switched date exists) -Original Message- From: cf coder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 27 februari 2004 11:48 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: DateFormat misery I've just noticed that if the date selected is 20/2/2004 11:35, dateformat correctly outputs it - 2004/02/20 (/mm/dd), but if the date selected is 5/2/2004 11:35, the output is - 2004/05/02. I have the meta tag on top of my page meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Any thoughts? Probably, your locale is US, so it formats a US date (mm/dd/). I always use ISO-format and if I have a text field with a date, I write a function to transform it to ISO (-mm-dd). [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
