Working with HTTP time strings should be easier to CFML / ColdFusion,
but there is no built-in function that will create a CFML date/time from
a UTC HTTP time string. So here is the UDF that can help you work with
HTTP time string in native CFML date/time functions. I didn't check
cflib.org first, but I really couldn't check it out of professional
courtesy because I was writing this function for open source project and
I didn't want to deal with attribution / license stuff (yes, I'm lazy).
<cffunction name="createDatetimeFromHttpTimeString" access="public" returntype="date" output="false"
hint="Creates an UTC datetime from an HTTP time string.">
<cfargument name="httpTimeString" type="string" required="true"
hint="An HTTP time string in the format of '11 Aug 2010 17:58:48 GMT'." />
<cfset var rawArray = ListToArray(ListLast(arguments.httpTimeString, ","), " ") />
<cfset var rawTimePart = ListToArray(rawArray[4], ":") />
<cfreturn CreateDatetime(rawArray[3], DateFormat("#rawArray[2]#/1/2000", "m"), rawArray[1], rawTimePart[1], rawTimePart[2], rawTimePart[3]) />
</cffunction>
Enjoy!
