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JamoCA / DateHash_Unhash.cfm

Last active September 6, 2022 23:16

ColdFusion UDF to format a date/time value to string format "yyyymmddHHmmssll" and back again. #dateHash(Now())# #dateUnHash("20140704")#

	<cfscript>
	/* 1/24/2011 james Moberg [email protected]
	@param numberofChars, number of characters (Optional, 12 = default)
	@param d, date/time string or object (Optional, now() = default)
	@return Returns a yyyyMMddHHmmssll string (depending on length of numberofChars.)
	Updated 20220903 to support millisecond */
	string function dateHash(numeric numberofChars=12, date=now()) hint="I convert a date object to yyyymmddHHmmssll" {
	var response = '';
	if(not isvalid("date", arguments.date)) {
	arguments.date = now();