How do I work with dates from URL and POST?

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RichieWhite - 31 Jul 2008 20:31 GMT

When I pass the same date from an <A> tag and a form <input> tag, the results
are different.
They look the same, but the URL variable isn't in the same format when you use
the result in a calculation.

See http://www.fishingguidenow.com/datetest.cfm

Please help me find a way to consistently calculate the results whether they
come from a form or a URL.

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Ian Skinner - 31 Jul 2008 20:46 GMT

> When I pass the same date from an <A> tag and a form <input> tag, the results
> are different.
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> Please help me find a way to consistently calculate the results whether they
> come from a form or a URL.

I don't see a problem with the date values you are receiving from the
post and get data.

I note that you are adding one *month* to the received date to get
'tomorrow'. That seems to be a bit more then tomorrow to me, but
otherwise it is working as coded.

The url example is missing <cfoutput> tags so the output is not rendered
for the value of the function, but I presume it will work the same as
the form test.

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Ian Skinner - 31 Jul 2008 21:04 GMT

A second point to realize is that any data you get from a form, either
with get or post, is string data - *NOT* a date object. It may look
like a date to us humans. Many of ColdFusion's functions will do their
best to convert the string into a date.

But you are leaving a lot to chance if you are not converting specific
strings to specific dates. Just remember that "2/10/08" is February
tenth 2008 to some, the second of October 2008 to others and maybe
February tenth or October second, 1908 to a few archaic types.

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