Barry, as I've explained before, LSDateFormat is a buggy piece of junk (I
probably used different words than this, but these will do for now) that
doesn't do half the stuff the DateFormat does, even though they should be
identical with the exception of their output formats.
LSDateFormat is extremely fussy over its input and doesn't accept most of
the formats that it should accept.
I still think you end up with better results with a carefully thought out
use of DateFormat and using completely non ambiguous date formats.
All I can put it down to is a lack of non-US testers, probably caused by the
difficulties non-US people have had in the past getting onto betas, where
these sort of issues could be identified and fixed.
I still cringe every time I have to do anything with dates in CF.
If you want anything different in Blackstone though, you _must_ tell someone
on the Blackstone team.
Regards
Darren Tracey
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Beattie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 15:59
> To: CFAussie Mailing List
> Subject: [cfaussie] CF & Dates - something's gotta give!
>
>
> [error]"1989/01/31" is an invalid date format.
>
> since when? it's the ISO standard*. So what's wrong with this?
> <cfset args.data.DOE = LSDateFormat("1989/01/31","yyyy/mm/dd") />
> (big fat error)
>
> but this format is fine
> <cfset args.data.DOB = LSDateFormat("4/11/1976","yyyy/mm/dd") />
>
> and so is this (except it still confuses dmy with mdy)
> <cfset args.data.DOD = DateFormat("2004/04/04","yyyy/mm/dd") />
>
> so what gives? Why does LSDateFormat() throw an error on the ISO format
> when DateFormat() doesn't?
>
> I'm not really looking for a solution ATM - I'll decide on a format and
> apply that or do what everyone else does and tear it apart just to piece
> back together. I'm just venting my spleen over illogical-ness and the
> lack of support in CF for a drop-dead simple format - yyyy/mm/dd. Even
> ASP would happily accept the ISO date standard and carry it from FORM to
> DB without mistake.
>
> I bloody well hope CF7 has got it's dates all sorted.
> It's giving me the sh!+s
>
> hrrrmph!
> barry.b
>
> * http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/datesandtime.html
>
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