Simple Now () stumble...

[cf59102]

I am trying to see a variable for today's date and then add a month to it to create another variable:

<cfset Variables.DateToday = Now()>

<cfset Variables.DateValReq = DateAdd("m", 1, variables.DateToday)>

However, my output comes out as the following:

Variables.DateToday shows up as January 12, 1900

and

Variables.DateValReq becomes February 12, 1900

It is obvious my DateToday is going awry. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[TruthInSatire]

are you using this in a query by chance? My co-worker had a problem like this just the other day. turns out the query didn't have the ' around the date value.

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[cf59102]

no am not - just outputting the dates!!

 

[GUJUm0deL]

This works perfectly fine for me:

<cfset variables.TodayDate = Now()>
<cfset variables.NextDate = DateAdd("m",1,variables.TodayDate)>

<cfoutput>
Today's Date is #dateformat(variables.TodayDate,"mm/dd/yyyy")# <br>
Next Date is #dateformat(variables.NextDate,"mm/dd/yyyy")#
</cfoutput>

You can view the results here:

http://imajinarts.com/datetest.cfm

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[cf59102]

The code worked fine for me on another machine also. I suspect I might have a variable-name conflict going on. Will do some tests and let you know.

Thanks for the response.

 

[webmigit]

... Have you tried outputting #Now()# on that machine? Just to see what you get?

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[MorganGreylock]

That was going to be my suggestion as well. If Now() outputs a date in 1900, then perhaps that is the BIOS time that is set for that computer... If it works on another machine is is certainly something in the machine and not the code.

Good luck,
MG