I had started doing that, but I was hoping to avoid the "brute force" approach :)
Someone on another mailing list posted this link, which fixed the problem:
http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000040.cfm
Cheers,
Kay.
>Worst case scenario, you can parse that thing out to a date format you
>know cf likes: <snip>
>> I'm working on a Flash remoting app, and I need to pass a list of
>> dates from the Flash calendar component to a CFC. I'm having some
>> problems with date formats. <snip>
>
>
>Flash is sending dates as strings like this: Mon Mar 10 00:00:00
>GMT+0800 2003
>
>In my CFC, when I run the following statements:
>#CreateODBCDateTime("Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 GMT+0800 2003")#<br>
>#DateFormat("Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 GMT+0800 2003",'dd/mm/yyyy')#<br>
>#ParseDateTime("Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 GMT+0800 2003")#
>
>I get the following results:
>{ts '2000-03-10 00:00:00'}
>10/03/2000
>{ts '2000-03-10 00:00:00'}
>
>That is, the 10th of March 2000 NOT the 10th of March 2003.
>
>Any ideas on what I need to do to return the correct year?
>
>TIA,
>Kay.
>
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