<cfset somedate = "12/17/2001"> <cfset firstofmonth = CreateDate(Year(somedate), Month(somedate), 1)>
Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:46 AM Subject: Re: Bug I think > I would like to get the first date of month(date). > > I want the first date of month to do a dateadd in my recurring calendar app. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garza, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:17 AM > Subject: RE: Bug I think > > > > This is how that function is supposed to operate. Firstdayofmonth() will > > return a julian date (day of the year). Dayofweek() requires a full date > > (mm-dd-yyyy). Think of it this way, how would dayofweek() know what year > it > > is from a julian date? What are you trying to accomplish from this? > > > > Jeff Garza > > Lead Developer/Webmaster > > Spectrum Astro, Inc. > > 480.892.8200 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.spectrumastro.com > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:12 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Bug I think > > > > > > Server Product ColdFusion Server > > Version 4, 5, 1, SP2 > > Edition Professional > > > > > > Has anyone see this? > > > > I am trying to find the firstdayofmonth(date) and then find what > > dayofweek(FirstDayofMonth(date)) is. > > > > For example: > > > > <cfset firstday = FirstDayofMonth("12/17/2001")> > > <cfset weekday = DayofWeek(firstday)> > > > > <cfoutput>#firstday# #Weekday# </cfoutput> > > > > This will give you: > > 335 for firstday (12/1/01) > > 6 for Weekday(11/30/1900) > > > > If you try to do a dateformat(firstday,"mm/dd/yyyy") you get 11/30/1900 . > > You don't get an error reporting that you can't do that. You just get the > > wrong answer. > > > > So I think that is a bug with CF 4.5. > > > > Any ideas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
