I remember, being on the RedSky beta, an issue with the CF Scheduler that
only affected Australian installations. This was fixed so yes being on the
beta can help. MM also deliver hotfixes for issues that don't crop up during
beta testing. RedSky was heavily beta tested and resulted in the excellent
CFMX 6 and 6.1. I have little doubt "Blackstone" will also be heavily beta'd
and will result in another superior product from MM. As long as they don't
kill the product with licensing fees a la Flex at least!

Wow! Must have been at least two years since the RedSky beta!

Peter Tilbrook
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Darren
Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 4:21 PM
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Subject: [cfaussie] RE: CF & Dates - something's gotta give!

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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