Thank you Peter and Kelly for your responses... Unfotunately, I don't control our client's DB servers or their other apps that use these WSs, so I'm forced to use this dateTime format: 2007-05-15T00:00:00-04:00
Flash/Flex dropping off the TZ infomation that is sent seems to paint me (and everyone else that has dateTime WSs that they don't control) in to a pretty small corner. If I knew the TZ of the dateTime that was sent in the WS then I could ajust accordingly based on my app needs... I still have a feeling that I'm overlooking something since this seems so fundamental..? Any other ideas..? Thanks, Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Farland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of paulwelling > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:42 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > 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 >
