This topic seems to come up repeatedly. I don't know what anyone on the runtime team tried or why Labriola didn't like it, and I'm no expert on the topic, but maybe we can collect some information in this thread that will help create a solution.
The basic goal, as I understand it, is to have a way to record the date something happened and display that date in all time zones. I think of it as viewing a printed receipt. For example if I purchase groceries at 9pm Pacific Daylight Time on Monday, October 7, 2013 and save that transaction to a server, there are scenarios where someone in India should be able to pull up that receipt and it should still show Monday, October 7, 2013 even though it was Tuesday, October 8, 2013 in India at the time I purchased those groceries. IIUC, the current "solution" is to save the date as a String. Apparently, that isn't good enough for folks. I assume that's because folks want to do some math or sorting on the date. Now for some questions: 1) Why does the runtime need to be enhanced to support this? 2) What do other languages and platforms do to solve this problem? 3) What would be a practical solution if the runtime does not provide this enhancement? 4) What should we do for FlexJS? Thanks, -Alex On 10/8/13 7:50 AM, "labri...@digitalprimates.net" <labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: >>this is a new feature request to have timeless date for Flash Player and >>blazeDS. >> can you please join the vote to make this high priority for Adobe to >>implement it? > >Several years ago, (June of 2011) Adobe did at least a test >implementation of such a feature (although I was not particularly fond of >the implementation approach). I believe things exploded before it was >ever implemented fully so I wouldn't expect to see progress on this. > >Just in case Alex can shed any light, it was Craig Rublee's team back >then doing the work along with the other g11n features. We had discussed >the problem at length, they had a proposed solution and even something >working in a test environment. > >Mike >
