Janet MacKay wrote: > > No, its not completely free-for-all. IIRC you can supply a pattern, locale, > etc. which gives you some flexibility. Using the correct settings you should > be able to parse numeric date strings in formats such as > > MMYYYYDD,MMDDYYYY, YYYYMMDD, d.M.yyyy, etc.
but you have to *know* all this before hand (and if you do, you can parse it yourself w/out resorting to java). and to continue to belabor this point, it's why you should stick w/the standard date/time formats when you display datetimes to users especial in i18n apps. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:286700 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
