im just saying, that BEGIN and END of month are KNOWN things... calculable things. constants if you will. why wouldnt a constant be available as a thing i can know, the java engine should know this... i realize i can code around it, hell i can code around ANYTHING but that does NOT mean its a good thing to code around.
right? On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Azadi Saryev <[email protected]> wrote: > > dateAdd('m', i, date1) > returns same DATE i months away. NOT same weekday, or same 3rd Thursday, or > even end of month date - just same DATE i months away. > >> so, with that, id say a new incrementer of precise calendar month would be >> best. > > why, when you can easily get the desired result using other already available > date functions? > > <cfset date1 = '11/30/2008' /> > <cfoutput> > <cfloop from=1 to=6 index=i> > <cfset newdate = dateAdd('m', i, date1) /> > #dateFormat(createdate(year(newdate), month(newdate), > daysinmonth(newdate)),'mm/dd/yyyy')#<br /> > </cfloop> > </cfoutput> > > > Azadi Saryev > Sabai-dee.com > http://www.sabai-dee.com/ > > > > Ras Tafari wrote: >> but the end of months is a KNOWN thing, calculated out forever, look >> at rainmain. >> with that known constant of dates, it would be easy to code it such >> that anything >> end of month that asks for a incrementer of "m" would be easy to assume that. >> >> so, with that, id say a new incrementer of precise calendar month would be >> best. >> >> tw >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321276 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
