Time formatting issue in coldfusion

Question

I am using Taffy framework for creating api endpoints. In one of my endpoint I need to display time in particular format say hh:mm:ss, I used timeformat method in CFC file to get the desired result, but when I hit the endpoint I am getting January, 01 1970 17:00:00. Any suggestions?

Note:For field "clientHoursOfOperationOpenTime" Time value is returned from Mysql, I am querying the DB in CFC file and formatting the clientHoursOfOperationOpenTimevalue.

<cfset var getLocationHours = QueryNew('') >
<cfquery name="getLocationHours" datasource="#appSettings.DSN#">
Select some fields here
</cfquery>

<cfset getLocationHours.clientHoursOfOperationOpenTime= "#timeFormat(getLocationHours.clientHoursOfOperationOpenTime, 'hh:mm:ss')#">
 <cfreturn getLocationHours >

When I dump this field getLocationHours.clientHoursOfOperationOpenTime I am getting the formatted value. But when I use taffy, I am getting the format issue.