ECMAScript did it this way and ActionScript was trying to follow ECMAScript.
- Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Fletcher Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 6:23 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: date problem? Or.... maybe the person that wrote the Java Date class is from Venus and the person that wrote the Actionscript one just copied him. You might get quite some support on the Java assertion... John 2012/1/13 Rick Winscot <rick.wins...@zyche.com<mailto:rick.wins...@zyche.com>> I'm suspicious... I think that the person that wrote the Date class is from Venus. Cheers, Rick Winscot From: John Fletcher <fletch...@gmail.com<mailto:fletch...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com>" <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com>> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:03:28 +0100 To: "flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com>" <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com>> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: date problem? Months start at 0 and go up to 11. Don't ask me why. John 2012/1/12 luvfotography <ygro...@all-digital-links.com<mailto:ygro...@all-digital-links.com>> http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/Date.html#methodSummary says: If you pass two or more arguments, the Date object is assigned a time value based on the argument values passed, which represent the date's year, month, date, hour, minute, second, and milliseconds. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "luvfotography" <ygroups@...<mailto:ygroups@...>> wrote: > > Why does: > trace((new Date(2012,01,15)).toString()); > and > trace((new Date('2012','01','15')).toString()); > > return: > > Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 GMT-0800 2012 > > February?? > -- John You're old enough to make your own decisions about the environment without me telling you what you should and shouldn't print. But if you do print, I hope this signature doesn't cause the message to go onto an additional page. Because that would be kind of stupid, wouldn't it?
