Sorry for the delayed response. I haven't played around with Dates that much but do recognize that in other languages they are much more adjustable for a situation like yours. Any information about your use-cases that you can include in the submissions to the wishlist help us make better-informed decisions. Passing the data back to your SWF in a format other than Date does give you the flexibility to control its meaning a little better, you are right.
Are there other developers out here who've been building apps that need to work in multiple timezones (or store their dates in GMT but work in another)? I know I've answered some issues before in the past, if anyone wants to speak up ;-) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kam-Wing Pang Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 2:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: How to handle manipulation of Date object and Timezones elegantly in Flex? Dear Matt, Thanks for the link. I've added a new wish to the list. We have played with the getTimezoneOffset and have been using it. It is just not the most elegant solution, especially when the application has many date objects for both display and as part of the parameters used for requesting data from the backend. I wondered if it would be worth considering creating a custom object (or even passing a string denoting the various date elements) to pass around date and time without any timezone information, if we are very sure that we won't use timezones in the future... Kam. --- In [email protected], "Matt Chotin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can file enhancement requests like the formatter with timezone > support at http://www.macromedia.com/go/wish. > > I assume you've played with setting the minutes of the date based on the > getTimezoneOffset returned from the date? > > Matt > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> AIDS in India: A "lurking bomb." Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/9QUssC/lzNLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
