I have had difficulty trusting the isDate() function also. I fell back to
using
<cfif isdefined("whatsnew.event_date") and len(trim(whatsnew.event_date))
gt 0>
take action
</cfif>
Charlie Hanlon
----- Original Message -----
From: "daniel kessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: testing for an undefined date
> It still seems to be enacting the code. I also tried <cfif
> isDefined('whatsnew.event_date')>
>
> I guess it's a date but an empty date or something like that since isDate
> didn't help.
>
>><cfif isDate(whatsnew.event_date)>
>
>
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