[cfaussie] Re: date comparisons

[Ben Bishop]

The POP date string (eg "Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:25:26 +1100") is the 
sender's local time with UTC offset appended. Strip off the UTC offset 
and you don't know when the mail was sent in your timezone.

parseDateTime() applies the offset to get to UTC and returns a ready to 
use date/time object - isn't this why we all love CF :)

> Could be a good fun time to leverage some Java and use 
java.util.StringTokenizer,

What's that old saying - when your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail? :)

Cheers,

- Ben
http://www.daemon.com.au/
Mark M wrote:

Fine then, take the much simpler route...
See what I care ;oD
 



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