ok!! thank you ! Time issues are always fun for me when I use my shared hosting, because here i am in Australian Eastern Standard Time, and the server is in US with local time there being Mountain Daylight Time right now, but the server's set up in UTC and being as how it's a computer, the clock wanders so every once in a while I have to get the support guy to correct the clock. And then when Daylight Savings time changes, it's always a thrill to guess whether the change is going to happen on the correct date. (Eastern Australian didnt change on the normal date this year, but only this year)
So this is a welcome way to unhook my sites from all that, and connect them to a standard time, always correct to within a millisecond or two, and not have to care whether the system clock on the server is correct or not. On each of my sites I set up a variable called request.austime and use that whereever you'd otherwise use now(). As long as request.austime is correct for Sydney time, everything's fine and it doesnt matter where in the world the server sits. So now, thanks to you two fine fellows, looks like this is finally going to give a true result after a long time of trying. thank you. Being as how it's after my bedtime now, and time t ogo do my graveyard shift radio show, I'll have a go at implementing your suggestions tomorrow morning and see how it goes. THANKS Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 5/25/06, Paul Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ken Ferguson wrote: > > struct > > DST TRUE > > HEALTHY FALSE > > JULIAN 53880 > > LEAPMONTH FALSE > > MSADV 87.0 > > NOW {ts '2025-06-05 13:24:49'} > > RAW 53880 06-05-25 13:24:49 50 0 0 87.0 UTC(NIST) * > > SUCCESS TRUE > > > > Here's what I get when I run your code. You'll see that NOW is getting > > all horqued up! > > in that case: > > <cfscript> > raw="53880 06-05-25 13:24:49 50 0 0 87.0 UTC(NIST) *"; > tD=listGetAt(raw,2," "); > tT=listGetAt(raw,3," "); > y=listFirst(tD,"-"); > m=listGetAt(tD,2,"-"); > d=listGetAt(tD,3,"-"); > h=listFirst(tT,":"); > n=listgetAt(tT,2,":"); > s=listgetAt(tT,3,":"); > tmpDate=createDateTime(y,m,d,h,n,s); //still suffers from DST rollover > writeoutput("<br>#dateFormat(tmpDate)# #timeFormat(tmpDate)#"); > </cfscript> > > the NTP might work a bit better (returns a timestamp of UTC seconds since > it's > epoch, 1-jan-1900). > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241445 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
