In the console, when I fetch updated_at from a record, and check the class via the command
>>sim.updated_at.class I get "ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone". Since it's a UTC time, I can use several of the commands from http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/TimeWithZone.html#M0 00512 to convert this to the local time zone. In my Flex code I have a ComboBox that has a dataProvider which is an mx:XMLListCollection of "sim" items. When I choose one of those using the ComboBox, I want to take the updated_at value and convert it from UTC to the local time zone. However, none of the TimeWithZone conversion functions seem to work. For example, the statement trace("/" + userModelsCB.selectedItem.updated_at.getlocal + "/") produces "//" in the trace file, as does everything else that I have tried. The commands work in the console, but not in my Flex code. If I just assign "userModelsCB.selectedItem.updated_at" to my text field, I get "2008-08-05T02:08:09Z", which is ugly and not very user friendly. Is there any way to get a TimeWithZone function that works in the console to work in my Flex code to get a nicely formatted date and time? Thanks, Louise
