Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / July 2008

Hi,

Have you installed that ICU4J.jar under <cf_root>\wwwroot\WEB-INF\lib directory?

fairly certain i answered this before.

there's no persian calendar in icu4j (or core java). you have use dr. ghasem's
lib. see:


http://www.sustainablegis.com/blog/cfg11n/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=719B5036-20
ED-7DEE-2AB3B8F1EF7CF163

use the testbed here:
http://www.sustainablegis.com/projects/icu4j/calendarsTB.cfm

@Paul: thanks. i'll be looking into this. So, to clear things, icu4j only supports farsi for displaying and not automatic date calculations according to the farsi locale, right?

hi Paul,

I tried your testbed
http://www.sustainablegis.com/projects/icu4j/calendarsTB.cfm and it gave me the
output i was expecting. Persian year now is 1387.  However, when I tried to
download all the files for this testbed and ran it from my local PC, the year
now in Persian is giving me 1386 instead of 1387? Anything more I have to
configure?

Hi Paul,

everything works fine now. My bad. I was using the old files (which makes me
wonder if the old files were correct?). But I tried the latest files which i
downloaded from the links you gave and everything is ok. Thank you so much.

Hi Paul,

Your i18ncalendars is really a great help. There is another thing also I want
to clarify about the i18ncalendars and the persiancalendar class. Correct me if
I am wrong, but the date base(I mean the basis for date conversion) is the
gregorian date right?  Which means, whatever date I input, the cf app(or maybe
this is done from the classes) will consider date inputs as gregorian and then
convert it to the desired calendar format? What if I am entering a date input
that is already a persian date, say I enter 1387-04-14(yyyy-mm-dd), is there
any way that we can tell the classes(or maybe the i18ncalendars) that the input
date is already a persian date(which means tell the app that the basis for date
conversion is Persian) ? The thing is, when I enter 1387-04-14(a persian date),
the app accepts it as a gregorian date and do some conversions. But I want to
let the app know that the input date is already a Persian date. Any insights,
ideas or suggestions on this. Thanks.

-Fran

It could be that the class/method is by default meant for java apps, that's why
it never bothered to subtract 1. Coz, if it did, then when a java app passes
0(first month), it would become -1 and would throw an error. In cf, that
wouldn't be the case though since month number starts from 1.

I really appreciate the help. I'll be looking more also into this class and do
some tests. And if I need help again, I'll be keeping this thread up again. :)
Thanks.

@Paul:  Oh, I see. Thanks.

Hi Paul,

More info on what I did:
My server/PC is localozed to persian and also the timezone.

I created the ff. customized functions:

<!--- substitutes the Now() function in CF --->
<cffunction access="public" name="global_Now" output="No" returntype="date">
    <cfscript>
   
        var utcNow=DateConvert("local2utc",Now());
       
    </cfscript>
    <cfreturn utcNow>
</cffunction>

<!--- this will make a call to your i18nDateTImeFormat --->
<cffunction access="public" name="global_DateTimeFormat" output="no"
returntype="string">
    <cfargument name="thisDate" required="yes" type="date">
    <cfargument name="thisDateFormat" default="LONG" required="No" type="string">
    <cfargument name="thisTimeFormat" default="LONG" required="No" type="string">
   
    <cfscript>
       
        var lstStandardDateTimeFormats = "FULL,LONG,MEDIUM,SHORT";
        var nDateFormat=1;
        var nTimeFormat=1;
       
        if(ListFindNoCase(lstStandardDateTimeFormats,arguments.thisDateFormat,","))
        {

            nDateFormat=ListFindNoCase(lstStandardDateTimeFormats,arguments.thisDateForma
t,",")-1;
        }
        else
        {
            nDateFormat=1;
        }
        if(ListFindNoCase(lstStandardDateTimeFormats,arguments.thisTimeFormat,","))
        {

            nTimeFormat=ListFindNoCase(lstStandardDateTimeFormats,arguments.thisTimeForma
t,",");
        }
        else
        {
            nTimeFormat=1;
        }
       

        sDateTime=thisCalendar.i18nDateTimeFormat(thisDate=arguments.thisDate,thisLoca
le=theLocale,thisDateFormat=nDateFormat,thisTimeFormat=nTimeFormat);
           
    </cfscript>

    <cfreturn sDateTime>
</cffunction>


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This is the code that tries to display the persian datetime:

#global_DateTimeFormat(global_Now(),"FULL","FULL")#

Anything wrong you can see with what I'm doing?