Yes, im sure it uses numbers to reference it's position just like most anything else does. CF knows that what is there is exactly what it put there and hardly makes an assumption about it's value. like someone already said, you can change the default US to some others if you want making your defualt whatever you want it to be. But what it puts there is there and ther's no assumption about it's value. Except from us... I assume it's a date because I used date functions to create it so that's what I'm going to call it and use it as if that's ok.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nando
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Date format issues
Well, it's not such a mystery. Computer languages and OS's have no
standardized way of representing dates, and neither do humans, and so
in a somewhat misguided effort to make it easy, ColdFusion makes
assumptions, and sometimes they're wrong. When you put all that
together, the discrepancies tend to multiply a little.
In the end for any date (or perhaps server configuration) in an app
outside of the US, it's the programmer who has to indicate somehow
"this number represents the day" "this number represents the month"
"and this is the year" - please make a date out of that in ColdFusion
datetime speak - you can ignore what the server thinks.
I was reading an article about converting datetime from one computer
language / OS to another ... now that's really a mess! Windows i think
has a few variations, Java has one, Mac has one, IBM has one,
different databases have different standards, Google has a fairly
standard one, i see in the line below, etc etc.
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:22:19 -0400, Ewok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> guess that makes sense... either way, what I posted swaps the day and moth and changes your orginal output to August dates. I THINK that is what you wanted. I'm not getting into the inner workings of CF and its why's and how's because I only got 118 from the IQ discussion : )
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