+1 on using the three letter month... almost impossible to confuse and human friendly to boot
On 9 June 2010 16:49, Blair McKenzie <shi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think that's the issue - us date formats would only kick in with the > named formats (i.e. "short"). Since he provided the format, the output > should be a generic string in that format. > > Mike, when I've had that issue I got around it by outputing the month with > the abbreviation rather than the number e.g. 9 Jun 2010. Both ColdFusion and > all the DBs I've worked with accept the format, and they have no need for > best-guess interpretation. > > Blair > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Andrew Scott <andr...@andyscott.id.au> > wrote: >> >> Straight from the ColdFusion documentation Mike. >> >> Formats a date value using U.S. date formats. For international date >> support, use LSDateFormat. >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Mike Kear <afpwebwo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm still testing, but it looks like at long last this problem is solved. >>> For those who have been following this saga, the issue is that no matter >>> what way I put the date into the code, it always seemed to be stored in the >>> database in an erratic way. For dates earlier than the 13th of the month >>> (and therefore ambiguous as to which is the day and which is the month in >>> the date string) the database would store yyyy-dd-mm and for the 13th or >>> later, it would store yyyy-mm-dd, which is what i wanted for all of the >>> dates. >>> It boiled down to a code generator that i've been using without any >>> issues for a long time. The setter and getter for any date fields was like >>> the following: >>> >>> =========================================================================================== >>> <cffunction name="setTransDate" access="public" returntype="void" >>> output="false"> >>> <cfargument name="TransDate" type="string" required="true" /> >>> <cfif isDate(arguments.TransDate)> >>> <cfset arguments.TransDate = dateformat(arguments.TransDate,"DD/MM/YYYY") >>> /> >>> </cfif> >>> <cfset variables.instance.TransDate = trim(arguments.TransDate) /> >>> </cffunction> >>> <cffunction name="getTransDate" access="public" returntype="string" >>> output="false"> >>> <cfreturn variables.instance.TransDate /> >>> </cffunction> >>> >>> =========================================================================================== >>> >>> This date formatting was apparently what's causing the problem. I'm not >>> sure why because I'd have thought it would either do nothing (i.e. convert >>> dd/mm/yyyy into dd/mm/yyyy) or correct an American format date to Australian >>> format date. >>> But when i removed that manipulation, the problem went away. I'm a >>> little nervous about just using it, because I think i should know why the >>> former code was a problem but that will have to wait for another day. >>> Here's the code that seems to give me the desired result: >>> >>> =========================================================================================== >>> <cffunction name="setTransDate" access="public" returntype="void" >>> output="false"> >>> <cfargument name="TransDate" type="date" required="true" /> >>> <cfset variables.instance.TransDate = arguments.TransDate /> >>> </cffunction> >>> <cffunction name="getTransDate" access="public" returntype="date" >>> output="false"> >>> <cfreturn variables.instance.TransDate /> >>> </cffunction> >>> >>> =========================================================================================== >>> I am MOST grateful to all those people - too numerous to mention now - >>> who have helped me through this. Because it goes back to a code generator >>> that I've never had any issues with while writing maybe 100 applications, I >>> didn't even look at that. It was a LONG way down the list of possible >>> suspects. I'll write and make sure Pete Farrell is in the loop on this. >>> Thank you all. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Mike Kear >>> Windsor, NSW, Australia >>> Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer >>> AFP Webworks >>> http://afpwebworks.com >>> ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "cfaussie" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "cfaussie" group. >> To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. > -- Zac Spitzer Solution Architect / Director Ennoble Consultancy Australia http://www.ennoble.com.au http://zacster.blogspot.com +61 405 847 168 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. 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