now() is an hour off

Report · Mar 19, 2008

the now() function is an hour off.
the date on the server (RH5.x) is correct.
How do I get CF to recognize the server time?

Report · Mar 19, 2008

get all your computers to do daylight savings time the same way. CF gets the value of now() from whatever computer it's running on.

Report · Mar 19, 2008

Assuming that you are in an area that went to daylight savings time, perhaps it is the time change issue. These threads may give you a place to start if it is.

CF7 NOT PICKING NEW SERVER TIME

ColdFusion MX/JRun and Sun's JVM: U.S. Daylight Saving Time changes in 2007

Phil

Report · Mar 19, 2010

I had this same problem and found a rather quick fix for it despite the hoops Adobe recommends.

First, go into CF administrator and verify the Java VM version CF is using in CF system information.

It should be above 1.3 for the following to work, otherwise you'll be forced to upgrade your JVM in the link below.

Next, go to the link and scroll down to the Alternative Solution - Sun JVM Hot Fix section and

and download the updater utility for Java (you will need to create an account with them to get the download).

Once downloaded, unzip the file in a temp folder on the CF server, then follow the instructions found

However, you will need to browse to the JVM used by ColdFusion, which is generally found in the

runtime/jre/bin folder to update its JVM engine. example command shell command will look like this:

[drive path to CF]/runtime/jre/bin/java -jar [drive path to updater]/tzupdater.jar -u

you will need to restart the CF Server service afterwards for this to take effect.

then run a test CFM page using Now() to see the result