I thought the Player got the timezone from the underlying OS.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Douglas Knudsen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> yes, we had big issues with a app in Flex 1.5 and now 2.0 because
of this.
> We coded around it by massaging the dates in AS with the clients
timezone
> offset. Works well, except for those folks living in Arizona. For
some
> reason the Flash Player does NOT pick up their offset correctly.
Outside of
> the Navajo Nation, Arizona does not follow day light savings, yet
the Flash
> player seems to think they do.
>
> DK
>
> On 13 Apr 2007 10:52:07 -0700, Dimitrios Gianninas <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone experienced this, but we have a VO
coming from
> > Java that contains a date field. Well I format the field using
the coe
> > below:
> >
> > <mx:DateFormatter id="df" formatString="YYYY-MM-DD" />
> >
> > *
> >
> > private
> > * *function* displayLastBillingDate( item:Object,
column:DataGridColumn
> > ):String {
> >
> > * return* df.format( item.lastBillingDate );
> >
> > }
> >
> > And what happens is that this code works almost to well. It takes
into
> > account the end-users PC timezone! So the date coming back from
the server
> > is 2007-05-01 00:00:00, so for someone in EST it shows properly as
> > 2007-05-01 (cause we are in EST) but for someone in CST is shows
> > 2007-04-30... anything we can do about this? How do I get the end-
user
> > timezone setting ?
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