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Title:

DateTimeFormat not honoring escape characters per wiki documentation

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Status/Resolution/Reason: Closed/Fixed/

Reporter/Name(from Bugbase): Tim Mixell / Tim Mixell (Tim Mixell)

Created: 02/02/2016

Components: Language, Functions

Versions: 11.0

Failure Type:

Found In Build/Fixed In Build: CF11_Final /

Priority/Frequency: Normal / Some users will encounter

Locale/System: English / Windows 7 SP1 64-bit

Vote Count: 5

Listed in the version 2016.0.03.300466 Issues Fixed doc 
Referencing documentation here: https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/coldfusion-functions/functions-c-d/DateTimeFormat.html

Problem Description: when trying to an escaped sequence in DateTimeFormat, characters in the sequence are omitted, or the function parses mask-characters

Steps to Reproduce: <cfdump var="#DateTimeFormat(now(), "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:nn:ss z", "America/New_York")#" />

Actual Result: 2016.02.02 AD 'P' 16:41:21 EST

Expected Result: 2016.02.02 AD at 16:41:21 EST

Any Workarounds: not really... the legacy date/time functions don't support timezone as an argument

----------------------------- Additional Watson Details -----------------------------

Watson Bug ID:	4113069

Deployment Phase:	Pre-Alpha

External Customer Info:
External Company:  
External Customer Name: Tim Mixell
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External Test Config: My Hardware and Environment details:



Windows 7 / IIS 7.5 / CF 11,0,07,296330

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link to scratch pad, courtesy of a fellow developer: http://trycf.com/gist/e25268c5dad4c97c52aa/acf11?theme=monokai
Comment by External U.
4837 | February 02, 2016 04:26:09 PM GMT
this is preventing me from formatting dates the way I would like to using DateTimeFormat.
Vote by External U.
4838 | February 02, 2016 04:32:03 PM GMT