Are you going to do this based on the CF locale? > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2003 6:34 p.m. > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Time zone mask characters > > Here is what I ended up doing: > > <cffunction name="ExtendedTimeFormat" returntype="string"> > <cfargument name="time" type="string" required="true"> > <cfargument name="mask" type="string" required="false" default="hh:mm tt"> > <cfset var timezone = ListLast( TimeFormat( Now( ),"long" )," " )> > <cfset var resultstring = TimeFormat( time,mask )> > <cfset resultstring = Replace( resultstring,"zz",timezone,"ALL" )> > <cfreturn resultstring> > </cffunction> > > #ExtendedTimeFormat( Now(),"HH:mm zz" )# returns what I am looking for. > > I have decided to challenge myself, however. Aside from the use of > <cffunction>, the above udf will not work on CF5 because of the lack of > support for long and full as masks, and the fact that any non-mask > characters are converted into an apos' delimitated list. If you have any > insight, please let me know. I am looking into GetTimeZoneInfo() then hand > writing a struct of arrays holding time zones and offsets, then picking > one > based on offset. This also allows for "zzz" for outputting the full time > zone name. Thanks for the help > > Bill Henderson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:17 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Time zone mask characters > > I think the best solution might be to write a udf: > > Function getTimeZone() { > Return ListLast(TimeFormat(Now(),"long")," ") > } > > or you could write your own extraspecialtimeformat() function that applied > the regular timeformat() fn then replaced any "z" with the tz. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bill Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2003 1:16 p.m. > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: Time zone mask characters > > > > Thanks, I was hoping that was not going to be the only way, because I > > would > > have to do it like this: > > > > "#TimeFormat( Now( ),"HH:mm" )# #ListLast( TimeFormat( Now( ),"long" )," > " > > )# " > > > > In order return a string of "23:05 PDT" - And that seems a bit kludgy. I > > submitted a feature request to MM, although I believe that this would > > probably not be a commonly needed feature. > > > > Bill Henderson > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matthew Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:16 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: Time zone mask characters > > > > You could use listlast(TimeFormat( Now( ),"long" ), " ") as a work > around > > to > > get the time zone. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Bill Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2003 8:23 a.m. > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Time zone mask characters > > > > > > Hello All - > > > > > > When you do TimeFormat( Now( ),"long" ) or TimeFormat( Now( ),"full" ) > > it > > > returns strings with the time zone at the end like so: 2:25:18 AM PDT. > > > > > > My question is, what are the mask characters to get the time zone to > > > display > > > if you don't use "long" or "full" as the mask? I can't find anything > in > > > the > > > docs about it. > > > > > > More specifically, I want to show the date as 24 hour time, like this: > > > TimeFormat( Now( ),"HH:mm ZZ" ) with ZZ being the time zone. > > > > > > > > > Bill Henderson > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
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