Posted by Justin Reynolds on May 21, 2008 at 12:12:29:
In Reply to: Re: Num2Date posted by Jim Guerber on May 21, 2008 at 11:03:09:
we were doing the following:
a) converting today's date into a serial date.
b) adding an arbitrary number of weeks/days to today, for example: 8 weeks.
c) converting the resulting serial date back into an "international friendly" version, like "12-Jun-2008".
to work around the new num2date functionality, i've switched to "mode 0", and let the final application (coldfusion) handle the date conversion.
"international friendly" is the important part. mode 5 worked well for this, until the functionality changed.
my main complaint, i guess, is that the idea of changing the way a tool (num2date) works on selected scenarios is just poor design. if a date won't convert properly, the tool should throw an error -- it shouldn't just randomly return results. it reminds me of the phrase, "2+2=5, for sufficiently large values of 2."
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