<Sigh> Yes, I was missing something all right. H is "hour in day (1-24)" whereas J is "hour in day (0-23)", which actually fits with the standard and might therefore be some use. Java offers this choice too, but at least it makes H the sensible option.
Maurice --- In [email protected], "mauricen" <maur...@...> wrote: > > The following code > > var formatter :DateFormatter = new DateFormatter(); > formatter.formatString = "DD-MMM-YYYY HH:NN:SS"; > var newDate : Date = new Date(2009,01,04); > trace(newDate.toDateString() +" "+ newDate.toTimeString()); > trace(formatter.format(newDate)); > > produces this output > > Wed Feb 4 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0000 > 04-Feb-2009 24:00:00 > > These two date-times differ by 24 hours, according to the > standard (ISO 8601, 4.2.3 note 2): > > > The end of one calendar day [24:00] coincides with [00:00] at > > the start of the next calendar day, e.g. [24:00] on 12 April > > 1985 is the same as [00:00] on 13 April 1985. > > This looks like a (pretty significant) bug in DateFormatter to > me. Or am I missing something? > > Maurice >
