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christopherkowalski
Inspiring
January 18, 2013
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Problems converting FILETIME date/time into MM/DD/YYYY format...

  • January 18, 2013
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Has anyone successfully converted a FILETIME date/time value into a MM/DD/YYYY format using ColdFusion? I am failing drastically, and it seems like an easy conversion.

FILETIME format (details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724284(v=vs.85).aspx) is a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601 (UTC).

A database I'm working with has such values, and I want to display them in a user-friendly date format within my application.

For example, one record is:

13003368600

The above number represents the following date and time:

1/22/2013 @ 2:50 PM

Sadly I know this only because the FILETIME value gets written to the database by a third-party application, and within that application I specify it in the MM/DD/YYYY format.

Can anyone offer me some guidance, or better yet has anyone accomplished this already and want to share code?

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paraih1
Participant
December 20, 2013

I did this, on cf9/linux, and it seemed to do the trick:

<cfscript>

Long = createObject("java","java.lang.Long");

Date = createObject("java","java.util.Date");

fileTimeToEpoch =

// take pwdLastSet From Active Directory, it's in filetime

pwdLastSet = JavaCast("long", Long.parseLong("130292682204519505"));

// take filetime and turn it into epoch/java - 1970/1/1

// http://www.silisoftware.com/tools/date.php - converted: jan 1, 1970 00:00 -00

javaTime = JavaCast("long", pwdLastSet - 116444736000000000);

// convert to milliseconds

javaTime = JavaCast("long", javaTime / 10000);

today = JavaCast("string", Date.init(javaTime));

</cfscript>

<cfdump var="#pwdLastSet#">

<cfdump var="#javatime#">

<cfdump var="#today#">

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Dan_Bracuk
Inspiring
January 19, 2013

Do it step by step.

First - divide by something to convert the filetime to seconds.

Next - do a dateadd to 1601-01-01

Finally, format the date.

Note - I did a quick google search and could not find the minimum allowed date in cf.  If it's later than 1601-01-01, it's just a couple of extra steps. 

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