[thelist] Time Zones and Locales in CF

[Raymond K. Camden]

Hmm, this is interesting. CF should return the same time as the system
clock. As an interim solution, you can always use CFEXECUTE to call date,
or, simply take Now() and add Offset to it. (Actually, the second would be
best since it wouldn't mean calling out to an external program.)

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Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Allaire

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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of John Pye
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 7:47 AM
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> Subject: [thelist] Time Zones and Locales in CF
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>
> Hi all
>
> A fairly simple question I hope: TimeFormat(Now()) in Cold Fusion gives me
> the Time in New York, GMT minus 5 hours, even though the software clock in
> Linux on the same machine gives our correct local time, according to GMT.
>
> Is there some way of setting the time zone that Cold Fusion
> thinks it's in,
> separate from the operating system, that I haven't discovered?
>
> telnet...
> [~]$ date
> Tue Nov 28 12:40:00 GMT 2000
>
> www...
>  GetTimeZoneInfo Example
>  The local date and time are {ts '2000-11-28 07:41:00'}.
>  Total offset in seconds is 18000.
>  Offset in hours is 5.
>  Offset in minutes minus the offset in hours is 0.
>  Is Daylight Savings Time in effect? NO.
>
> I have tried using the SetLocale command as in
>  <CFSET application.locale=SetLocale("English (UK)")>
>  <CFSET application.locale=GetLocale()>
>   ...but to no avail.
>
> Any comments would be most appreciated!
> John
>
>
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