Plugins:DateUtils

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Exploring the DateUtils Plugin

Overview

This CFC is a utility that helps you deal with date representations

parseRFC822

Parse RFC822 dates, returns empty string if not a valid date. (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html)

Returns

• This function returns string

Arguments

Examples

// parse an RFC822 date into a usable CF date time object
safeCFDate = getPlugin("DateUtils").parseRFC822("Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:00:00 EST");

parseISO8601

Parse a UTC or ISO8601 date to a normal CF datetime object: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss

Returns

• This function returns string

Arguments

Examples

// parse an iso8601 date into a usable CF date time object
safeCFDate = getPlugin("DateUtils").parseISO8601("2003-04-01T13:01:02");