RE: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] RE: [flexcoders] Re: Date Bug?

[Shannon Hicks]

I've found the problem (thanks Service Capture, as usual).   Flash passes back a timestamp, not just a date, when using the datefield. So, I'd pass back "Tue Aug 29 :00:00:00 EDT 2006". Of course, CF thinks that you want to convert a timestamp to a date, and does the timezone conversion automatically, making it Tue Aug 28.   Ugh.   Guess I need to pass back a string instead.   Shan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Battershall, Jeff Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:26 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] RE: [flexcoders] Re: Date Bug? Doug, I did think of that - but the date issue was demonstrated at 11:00 AM PST/1:00 DST. I'm thinking that this behavior could be replicated pretty easily - we worked around it by passing simple strings as I said. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com] On Behalf Of Doug Lowder Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Date Bug? I'm doubtful this is a bug because of the fact that you are dealing with two timezones. The Date class converts times to client-local values based on the OS's timezone setting, so if the time in question is between 12:00 and 2:59 AM Eastern you will see a date of one day earlier when viewed in Pacific timezone. You can do some testing with date.toUTCString() to make sure dates/times are the same no matter what the client timezone is. Doug --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com, "Battershall, Jeff" <jeff.battershall@...> wrote: > > Some interesting behavior turned up by populating a combox box with some > dates pulled from a CFQUERY-driven dataprovider and passing the selected > date back via post to a CF page. Certain users would consistently get > the date back one day earlier than was intended. Has anyone seen > anything like this? I'm on the East Coast and the user in question was > on the West Coast if that matters (and I don't think it should). > > What I've had to do is 'dumb it down' by passing a simple string > yyyyddmm and then parsing it on the CF side of things after the post > operation - something about date handling within Player 9 seems a little > quirky. In other words I eliminated all date parsing from remote object > back to Flex and Flex back to CF. > > Note that the user had the same exact behavior on IE or Firefox. Any > insight appreciated! > > Jeff Battershall > Application Architect > Dow Jones Indexes > jeff.battershall@... > (609) 520-5637 (p) > (484) 477-9900 (c) > -- 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Software development tool Software development Software development services Home design software Software development company Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.13.25/515 - Release Date: 11/3/2006 5:15 AM