From: Claude Schneegans
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: Date format issues
>>This will make date1 and date2 actual dates rather than a normal string to CF.
No, never.
The function dateformat expects a date as first parameter, not a string, and "02/08/2004" is a not a date, it is a string.
A date in CF is represented internally by a number.
Even if the function iDate("02/08/2004") says "yes", don't be confused. These "type detection" functions in a language like CF which is typeless is just a joke. It does not return "yes or no this is a date", but "Yes or no I could make this a date if you want it to be a date".
Only true dates should be passed to dateformat, like for instance
dateFormat (now(),... or
dateFormat (createDate(...),...
etc.
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