Odd, I've always had to adjust for the timezone, and I've always built on XP or OSX. I just assumed that was the way it was supposed to be.
On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Scott Melby wrote: > My application uses many dates. Dates are always passed between the > back end web service and the front end flex app as timestamps, > milliseconds since epoch. Yesterday I switched to a dev. box that is > running VISTA... now all of the dates in my application are off by the > timezoneOffset. I can correct them easily enough as follows: > > var millis:Number = d.time; > var offsetMillis = d.timezoneOffset * 60 * 1000; > d.time = millis + offsetMillis; > > But, I am not sure that this is the right thing to do. I went back > and > checked my XP machine setup and verified that it was using the correct > timezone, and it was. So... why would this behave differently? The > behavior seems to be dictated by the OS that the .swf file was > built on > (or the flex sdk compiler that was used) and not by the OS that the > flash player is running on. I verified this by accessing a site > running > a .swf that I built on XP from both systems... that one handled > dates as > I expected (no manual TZ adjustment needed). Then I accessed a site > running a .swf that I built on my vista box from an XP client and an > vista client. Both exhibited the need for a time zone correction. > > Can anybody tell me what is expected here? Should I adjust for > timezone > as above every place in my code where I create dates? Any help is > appreciated. > > Scott > > > > -- > 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 > > >
