>>i have dates stored in a mysql db which is in the format yyyy/mm/dd
First of all, unless your date field has text type and you store the date as a string, the db format is not yyyy/mm/dd. It is some floating value specific to the database. Some early db systems would store it as a string YYYYMMDD, like dBase, Foxpro, Clipper, etc. >>when i try to get data out of the db and put it in the dd/mm/yyyy format i use lsdateformat(date,"dd/mm/yyyy") >>and it spits out an error: 01/20/2008 is not a valid date format!! Show us some code, especially the line that "spits" ;-) -- _______________________________________ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:296922 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
