Question

How can I adjust a date in coldfusion to get the next day at 1AM?

the date is taken from a database, and stored as a string. I’m thinking the way to do it is through CreateDateTime and filling it with the time and date using year,month,day + 1 etc.

I’m just worried that it won’t work when the next day falls on the next month

Answer 1

Using DateAdd() you can always be sure that it will take the context of the current date into account. So if it is August 31 and you add one day it will correctly make the date Sept 1st. It will also properly switch the year if you did the same on Dec 31st.

<cfset nextDate = dateAdd("d", 1, now()) />
<cfset nextDateWithTime = createDateTime(year(nextDate), month(nextDate), day(nextDate), 1, 0, 0) />

<cfoutput>#nextDateWithTime#</cfoutput>