Howard, One thing I might suggest is to try/catch the logic and dump the cfcatch scope into an email. This will probably yield you a more robust error report than what you see here.
I took your function and modified it just a bit to see if I could find something out. It looks like that, when you set the date as “31oct2012”, the reason its yielding an error is because of your list being out of chronological order. Oct and Nov are switched. I fixed them up; the function returns the expected data. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Howard Fore Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:25 PM To: ACFUG Discussion Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: Odd CreateDate error Actually that date string works ok. But "31Oct2011" does not. "30Oct2011" is ok, Halloween isn't. Grr. -- Howard Fore, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.” - Margaret Mead On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Howard Fore <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I'm sure there's some blindingly obvious thing I'm doing wrong here, but I can't see it. Any ideas would be extremely helpful. <cffunction name="dateConverter"> <cfargument name="strDate" required="yes"> <cfargument name="strFormat" required = "yes"> <cfset var rtnDate = createDate(1900,1,1)> <cfif arguments.strFormat is "ddmmmyyyy"> <!--- example: 31jan2012 ---> <cfset var dateParts = RefindNoCase('([0-9]{1,2})([a-z]{3,3})([0-9]{4,4})',arguments.strDate,1,true)> <cfif dateparts.pos[2] neq 0> <cfset var theDate = {}> <cfset theDate.days = mid(arguments.strDate,dateParts.pos[2],dateParts.len[2])> <cfset theDate.month = mid(arguments.strDate,dateParts.pos[3],dateParts.len[3])> <cfset var theMonthsList = 'jan,feb,mar,apr,may,jun,jul,aug,sep,nov,oct,dec'> <cfset theDate.monthNumber = ListFind(theMonthsList,theDate.month)> <cfset theDate.year = mid(arguments.strDate,dateParts.pos[4],dateParts.len[4])> <cfset rtnDate = createDate(theDate.year, theDate.monthNumber, theDate.days)> </cfif> </cfif> <cfreturn rtnDate> </cffunction> <cfset theDate = "12oct2012"> <cfoutput>#dateConverter(theDate,'ddmmmyyyy')#</cfoutput> gives me (in CF 9.0.1) an extremely unhelpful error (line 37 in the stack trace below is the cfset rtnDate line towards the end of the above function: struct Message MONTH StackTrace java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: MONTH at java.util.GregorianCalendar.computeTime(GregorianCalendar.java:2482) at java.util.Calendar.updateTime(Calendar.java:2469) at java.util.Calendar.getTimeInMillis(Calendar.java:1088) at java.util.Calendar.getTime(Calendar.java:1061) at coldfusion.util.DateUtils.createDate(DateUtils.java:959) at coldfusion.runtime.CFPage.CreateDate(CFPage.java:1009) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441$funcDATECONVERTER.runFunction(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:37) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:472) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ArgumentCollectionFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:368) at coldfusion.filter.FunctionAccessFilter.invoke(FunctionAccessFilter.java:55) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:321) at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:220) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:2582) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor2(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1251) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor11(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1242) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor12(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1156) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor13(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1154) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor14(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1146) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor24(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1137) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor32(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:13) at cfindex2ecfm2067856441.runPage(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:12) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:231) at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:416) at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65) at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:360) at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48) at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40) at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:94) at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) at coldfusion.filter.BrowserDebugFilter.invoke(BrowserDebugFilter.java:79) at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28) at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62) at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:200) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286) at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543) at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203) at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428) at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66) -- Howard Fore, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.” - Margaret Mead ________________________________ No virus found in this message. 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