Your problem is somewhere else; this code works fine on CF 7 and CF 8: <cfset xdate = "May 21, 2008"> <cfset cdate = "#ParseDatetime(xdate)#"> <cfoutput>#DateFormat(cdate,"dd/mm/yyyy")#</cfoutput>
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Rick Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello James, > > I certainly did and the error I get is: May 21, 2008 is an invalid date or > time string > > My code: > <cfset myDoc=XMLParse(XMLResult)> > <cfset xdate = "#ToString(myDoc.michiganMasons.event_begin_date[1])#"> > <cfset cdate = "#ParseDatetime(xdate)#"> > > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: June-18-08 10:36 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Date parsing and formatting... > > Di you try ParseDateTime() ? > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Rick Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK, here's the scoop... >> >> >> >> I'm grabbing the date from an XML web service which is returning the date > in >> the following format: May 21, 2008 >> >> How can I change it to 05/21/2008 ? >> >> >> >> Naturally I had to parse it to a string because Cold fusion won't parse an >> XML child node. >> >> I've tried dateformat, CreateDate, LSParseDateTime and they all return >> errors telling me that "May 21, 2008 is an invalid date format". > > -- > mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: > http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307698 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
