Keith Reiter

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• A Big Hole In My Understanding Of ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks

  Posted on Jan 8, 2014 at 1:32 PM

  I know this is an old thread but for those wanting to run a task on given days of the week and don't want to build your own database based system, you can add <cfif not listfind('2,4,6',dayofweek(now())><cfabort></cfif> to the top of the code. Schedule it to run every day. Althou... read more »

• Change In ColdFusion Date::getTime() Method In ColdFusion 10

  Posted on Oct 16, 2012 at 3:21 PM

  http://blogs.coldfusion.com/post.cfm/coldfusion-10-update-3-released Looks like they made some changes related to date/time conversions.... read more »

• Change In ColdFusion Date::getTime() Method In ColdFusion 10

  Posted on Oct 1, 2012 at 11:45 AM

  I may be way off here but one thing I've run into several times is the auto conversion of long integers into scientific notation. I wonder if it's doing some conversion internally to scientific losing a lot of precision.... read more »

• Change In ColdFusion Date::getTime() Method In ColdFusion 10

  Posted on Oct 1, 2012 at 11:06 AM

  Just curoius. Maybe try the same test but use 1970-01-01 instead of now(). That should verify which one is incorrect.... read more »

• Change In ColdFusion Date::getTime() Method In ColdFusion 10

  Posted on Oct 1, 2012 at 11:01 AM

  According to the WIKI the base date for epoch is 1970-01-01 UTC! "The time kept internally by a computer system is usually expressed as the number of time units that have elapsed since a specified epoch, which is nearly always specified as midnight Universal Time on some particular date."... read more »