Advanced Date Parsing with ColdFusion This is helpfull if you scrape an RSS Feed, and need to format the date, to your own likings. *hint* For instance , you want to take the RSS Feed date, get the #month#, #date#, then create a page, based on that date .. /#month#/#date#/#year#/#rsstitle#.cfm Anyway, normal parsedate() would work, however, this puts in concideration time zones ! ... <cfset date = GetHttpTimeString()> <cfset formatter = CreateObject("java", "java.text.SimpleDateFormat")> <cfset formatter.init("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z")> <cfset parsePosition = CreateObject("java", "java.text.ParsePosition")> <cfset parsePosition.init(0)> <cfset newDate = formatter.parse(date, parsePosition)> <cfoutput> GetHttpTimeString = #date# <br /> SimpleDateFormat = #newDate# <br /> ParseDateTime = #ParseDateTime(date)# </cfoutput> Code (markup): Original Post: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/569.cfm