I had a similar issue with a WS I was using, and realized it was sending back both UTC and local time - you might check for that. I ended up having to use a function to get the time right and displayed correctly in a data grid.
Check the AS 3 reference too, I think there's an example in there. joe --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Farland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you be sure that all of the dates that come from that server will be > sent in the timezone of that server? > > If they're -4 hours behind GMT / UTC, then you know that > > 2007-05-15T00:00:00-04:00 > > is the same as: > > 2007-05-15T04:00:00Z > > However, if you're -7 hours behind GMT / UTC, for example, then this > time is seen as: > > 2007-05-14T21:00:00-07:00 > > All of these three times are equivalent but just in different timezones. > > A problem arises if your code, or perhaps some UI component that you're > using to display dates, only considers the date portion of this > dateTime... then you're not really getting an accurate picture of the > point in time in which this dateTime refers. If you're only interested > in the date and not the time, then you can always send individual values > for YYYY, MM and DD (or use xsd:date and not xsd:dateTime). If you can't > change the webservice... then you'll need a way to query the remote > timezone and make adjustments accordingly (i.e. for the above scenario > where you only want the date as it was in that remote date time... you'd > have to hack the date by adding the difference from the remote timezone > as compared to the local timezone). > > Pete > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of paulwelling > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:26 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Date - Timezone with WS > > > > 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 <mailto:flexcoders% 40yahoogroups.com> > , "Peter Farland" <pfarland@> 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:flexcoders% 40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders% 40yahoogroups.com> > ] On > > Behalf Of paulwelling > > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:42 PM > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders% 40yahoogroups.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 > > >
