Paul -
Thanks for the response.
Maybe your XP builds were resulting in dates that had timezoneOffset =
0. If this is the case, the adjustment would have no effect and you
would not notice that you didn't need it. If that is not the case, then
I am really confused.
Thanks again
Scott
Paul Decoursey wrote:
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
>
>
>
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