> string to date conversion as soon as form data is read. LSDateFormat()
> and other tools are part of a "form processing" layer before it gets
FUKIT!
dateFormat was for display. One of the Parse()/isDate() functions was
used for conversion/replace with sentinal values. I can't remember
what it w
Gareth (QLD CFUG mgr) and I identified this (dates as strings) as a
problem when developing a custom framework right back in CF6.1 days.
For my money, the only way to handle this is to strongly type all the
data as it moves from one layer to another (inc the DB), starting the
string to date conver
I have no problem with posting the name of code generator, but let me share
this with the author first. Then I'll post more details.
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.N
Good point. It only becomes an issue when the date has to be a string at
some point, e.g. form fields.
On 09/06/2010 5:40 PM, "Sean Corfield" wrote:
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Mike Kear wrote:
> It boiled down to a code...
Storing dates as formatted strings is just asking for problems. I'
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Mike Kear wrote:
> It boiled down to a code generator that i've been using without any issues
> for a long time. The setter and getter for any date fields was like the
> following:
Storing dates as formatted strings is just asking for problems. I'm
glad you poste
+1 on using the three letter month... almost impossible to confuse and
human friendly to boot
On 9 June 2010 16:49, Blair McKenzie wrote:
> I don't think that's the issue - us date formats would only kick in with the
> named formats (i.e. "short"). Since he provided the format, the output
> shoul
I don't think that's the issue - us date formats would only kick in with the
named formats (i.e. "short"). Since he provided the format, the output
should be a generic string in that format.
Mike, when I've had that issue I got around it by outputing the month with
the abbreviation rather than the
Straight from the ColdFusion documentation Mike.
Formats a date value using U.S. date formats. For international date
support, use LSDateFormat .
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Mike Kear wrote:
> I'm still testing, but it looks like at long last this problem is solved.
> For those who have be
I'm still testing, but it looks like at long last this problem is solved.
For those who have been following this saga, the issue is that no matter
what way I put the date into the code, it always seemed to be stored in the
database in an erratic way. For dates earlier than the 13th of the month
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