The problem is that you cannot give the CreateDateTime function a '5' and expect it to know if you mean AM or PM. The function works only with a 24 hour clock. pass it a seventeen (which your second case does since hour(now()) equals 17 not 5), and everything works fine.
It's not a bug, just some confusion. Hope this helps! :o) Cheers, Chris Jacob Munson wrote: > I brought this up in a previous thread: > http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/thread.cfm/threadid:49106 > > If you execute this code, changing the 'currentHour' at the top to the > current hour in your time zone, tell me if diff1 isn't way off (it > should be 0): > > <cfset currentHour = "2"> > <cfset date1 = createDateTime(year(now()), > month(now()), > day(now()), > currentHour, > minute(now()), > second(now()))> > <!--- calculate how many seconds elapsed ---> > <cfset diff1 = DateDiff("s",date1,now())> > > <cfset date2 = createDateTime(year(now()), > month(now()), > day(now()), > hour(now()), > minute(now()), > second(now()))> > <!--- calculate how many seconds elapsed ---> > <cfset diff2 = DateDiff("s",date2,now())> > > <cfoutput> > date1: #date1#<br /> > diff1: #diff1#<br /> > date2: #date2#<br /> > diff2: #diff2# > </cfoutput> > > The problem I'm seeing is that the hour from date1 is on the 12 hour > clock, while date2's hour is on the 24 hour clock. I'd think CF would > be able to correctly parse that. Or am I getting something confused? > I already know how to work around this, I'm just curious about this > weird behavior. > > On a side note, I tried this on both ColdFusion and BlueDragon and get > the same results, which makes me think I'm not getting something. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:263872 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
