Ive noticed this in the past.. and the workaround I used was to put a try/catch around it and parse the date when it fails..
HTH jason ----------------------- Jason Bayly Newgency Pty Ltd http://www.newgency.com/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Payne-Rhodes Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2005 4:27 PM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] Re: dateLastModified - from cfdirectory Thanks Terry, Maybe as a last resort but I think I'm just compounding my problems if I head down that path. B) Terry Sasaki wrote: > need ParseDateTime function? > > terry > > On 13/07/05, Brett Payne-Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Using CF6.1... >> >>Occasionally the 'dateLastModified' returned by cfdirectory is not really a >>date, well not according to the dateformat() function anyway... >> >>======================================================================================= >>Error Occurred While Processing Request >>The value "Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:16:36 PM WST" could not be converted to >>a date. >>======================================================================================= >> >>Without getting into the specifics of trying to parse dates, shouldn't >>cfdirectory be returning a 'date' that can be used by dateformat()? *Surely* >>it should be... >> >>The documentation says: >> >>If action = "list", cfdirectory returns these result columns, which you can >>reference in a cfoutput tag: >> >>name: directory entry name. The entries "." and ".." are not returned. >>size: directory entry size >>type: file type: File, for a file; Dir, for a directory >>dateLastModified: the date that an entry was last modified >>attributes: file attributes, if applicable >> >>So, "the date that an entry was last modified" suggests a 'date' but it would >>appear to be a string. And not a valid date string at that... >> >>Is it because the server is running with non-US date formats? But I would >>expect CF to handle this... >> >>Perhaps someone can point me to a java function called something like >>"getFileAttributes()" to use instead? >> >> >>Many thanks, >> >>Brett >>B) >> >>-- >>Brett Payne-Rhodes >>Eaglehawk Computing >>t: +61 (0)8 9371-0471 >>f: +61 (0)8 9371-0470 >>m: +61 (0)414 371 047 >>e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>w: www.ehc.net.au >> >>--- >>You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ >> > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
