Agreed. A locale setting in the Administrator would indeed be tasty along
with fixed (read multi-locale capable) non-LS functions.
This really is a pain in the backside for us.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 3:55 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: ColdFusion SP2
>
>
> I concur, CF server always assumes English (US) as the default locale
> irrespective of OS settings which means that all us Europeans
> have to ensure
> that we use the locale specific settings to ensure that our dates are
> treated appropriately. This can be a real pain as it's a
> common stumbling
> block for most CF newbies. It would be nice to be able to set
> once and for
> all the locale in one place and have CF treat all dates
> correspondingly from
> then on. On the same note, something which has always bugged
> me is why do we
> need to have separate date functions for the US than for the
> rest of the
> world (ParseDateTime() and LSParseDateTime() )? Surely one
> set of functions
> would suffice which are all locale specific. Similarly why do we have
> DollarFormat() and LSCurrencyFormat() when the latter is
> quite capable of
> supporting the former?
>
> Steve
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aidan Whitehall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 13:37
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: ColdFusion SP2
> >
> >
> > Don't know if this applies to the SP2, but how about being
> able to set the
> > Locale in ColdFusion Administrator or it being able to find
> out how the
> > dates are formatted at the OS level?
> >
> > I've just realised a scheduled event set up this morning
> wasn't being
> > triggered because the default value of 10/03/2000 in the
> Start Date field
> > was (to us Europeans) 10th March, not the 3rd of October.
> >
> > Being miles away (metaphorically), I didn't twig and change
> the date.
> > Result: no scheduled event till the penny dropped.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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