ActionScript 3 Dates are actually "DateTime" instances and always have a timezone. Dates are always shown in the local timezone in Flash, this isn't Flex specific. You have to use the UTC specific accessors in ActionScript to get the time in UTC / Zulu / GMT time. There is no record of the original timezone that was used to construct the Date. Serialization formats often send dateTime information in UTC to keep things simple - either endpoint can adjust the time on display as necessary. Note that there are a few bugs in how timezone-less date, time and dateTime XML Schema types are handled in Flex WebService that should be fixed in the new implementation of Flex SDK 2.0.1 Hotfix 2 which is due out soon. However, this isn't necessarily related to your dateTime as it has a timezone specified. Pete
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paulwelling Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Date - Timezone with WS Hello, I have a WS that returns a date. Our server is in EDT. Using Charles to sniff the date: 2007-05-15T00:00:00-04:00 When debugging the resultset in Flex, it appears that Flex has ignored TZ info passed and has applied the client's TZ to the date..! (I changed my PC's TZ to GMT and the TZ offset in the resultset gets changed accordingly, even though the server is still passing -04:00!!!) Has anyone come up with a good work-around / fix for this... (I'm still in shock on this one...) Thanks for the help! Paul
