I know the various JVM versions have had issues with DST settings in the past (like 10 years ago); do your 2 servers have the same JRE configured for CF?
On 10/4/2011 6:13 PM, Edward Chanter wrote: > Thinking about this on a more technical level, does anyone know where CF > ultimately derives the week number? When I enter #now()# I assume that's the > system time but when I do #week(now())# is that the CF server taking #now()# > and deriving the week or does it get that from jrun or linux or does it work > things out on its own? What could make a CF 8.0.1 server on one linux > machine say that the exact same date/time/timezone is week 41 and every > other CF server that I know of say it's week 40? > > Why do I feel like an evil little [enter name of favourite nasty] has > decided to inhabit one of my servers? > > The explanation must be so simple that I will call myself an idiot for not > thinking about it when I do find out what it is.... > >> -----Original Message----- >> 1. Yes, exact same date and time >> 2. Yes both are set to timezone London and both report "BST" next to the >> time when I do a date command in linux 3. Yes in both cases I used >> "#week(now())#" to get the CF date and "date >> +%W" to get the linux date >> >> I've setup and configured quite a few CF linux servers and have only ever >> seen this happen on one machine. >> >> "Welcome to Weirdsville, population: me" :( >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> Very odd indeed. It makes sense that linux and cf would differ by 1, >>> as cf >> is >>> 1-53. However it doesn't make any sense to me why cf would return 40 >>> on one and 41 on the other. Can you verify: >>> >>> 1) they are both the same server date? >>> 2) they are both the same timezone offset? >>> 3) they are both using CF's week() function to return the integer? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347917 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
