Wait, I think I get what you might be saying... It ONLY does the text to date stuff IF your text happens to be formatted properly to one of the locale formats?
So it's not really a free-for-all, you provide the mask and completely random string of numbers conversion. It's more like you provide a string of text which conforms to a specific local formatting, and THEN it can be formatted into a date object. Is that correct? ~Brad -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:16 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: date UN-mask Brad Wood wrote: > Are you sure? > > The first line of the page says, "It allows for formatting (date -> > text), parsing (text -> date), and normalization." The "text -> date" > is what looked promising. as i said before, your text isn't in any locale formatting i know about (and i ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:286693 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
