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last edited by
gef
on 03-Oct-2011
gef
on 03-Oct-2011
parseDateTime
Description
Parses a date/time string according to the English (U.S.)
locale conventions. (To format a date/time string for other
locales, use the LSParseDateTime function.)
Usage Syntax
parseDateTime(object date,[string popConversion,[string timezone]]): datetime
Return Information
| Return Type |
| datetime |
Arguments
The arguments for this function are set. You can not use other arguments except the following ones.
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| date | object | Yes | A string containing a date/time value formatted according to U.S. locale conventions. |
| popConversion | string | No | |
| timezone | string | No | A datetime object is independent of a specific timezone, it is only a offset in milliseconds from 1970-1-1 00.00:00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). This means that the timezone only comes into play when you need specific information like hours in a day, minutes in a hour or which day it is since those calculations depend on the timezone. For these calculations, a timezone must be specified in order to translate the date object to something else. If you do not provide the timezone in the function call, it will default to the timezone specified in the Railo Administrator (Settings/Regional), or the timezone specified for the current request using the function setTimezone. You can find a list of all available timezones in the Railo administrator (Settings/Regional). Some examples of valid timezones: - AGT (for time in Argentina) - Europe/Zurich (for time in Zurich/Switzerland) - HST (Hawaiian Standard Time in the USA) |
Railo 3.3: The function now accepts HTTP time strings as well. Supported HTTP time string formats are:
| Description | Format |
| Year and month | YYYY-MM (eg 1997-07) |
| Complete date | YYYY-MM-DD (eg 1997-07-16) |
| Complete date, hours and minutes | YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20+01:00) |
| Complete date, hours, minutes and seconds | YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00) |
| Complete date, hours, minutes, seconds including a decimal fraction | YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30.45+01:00) |
