If you want to make absolutely sure, do:
<cfset setLocale("English (US)")>
<CFOUTPUT>
isDate("05/25/2003") = #lsIsDate("05/25/2003")#
<BR>isDate("25/05/2003") = #lsIsDate("25/05/2003")#
</CFOUTPUT>
Yeah, isDate is fairly useless. In CF4.5, there's lots of totally incorrect
dates that it thinks are perfectly valid.
-----Original Message-----
From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: September 19, 2003 9:33 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: dates nightmare again!
According to the docs:
"IsDate checks only the U.S. date format. For other date support, see
LSDateFormat. "
However, the code below returns "YES" in both cases:
<CFOUTPUT>
isDate("05/25/2003") = #isDate("05/25/2003")#
<BR>isDate("25/05/2003") = #isDate("25/05/2003")#
</CFOUTPUT>
The first date is correct, but again, and contrarily to the specs, CF is
guessing that "25/05/2003"
although not a valid American date, might be a valid European date after
all.
Both in CF 5 and CFMX :-(
Please MM stop that random and guessing behaviour in CF, we are trying to
write proper code,
we don't run a casino!
If we want to check a date in American format, we don't give a dam it could
eventually be a correct date
if we had intended to enter an European date.
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