Yes it does. Here <http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictiona\ ry/actionscript_dictionary163.html> is a link that says something like: "We are proudly taking care of daylight savers since version 5.0" ;-)
Greets, Max --- In [email protected], "rueter007" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the getTimezoneOffset actually takes care of Daylight savings. > I vaguely remember working on an application where I was checking the > offset and it returned 7hrs vs 8hrs (PST zone) for before and after > the daylight savings change. Again, I might be wrong. Can someone confirm? > > > --- In [email protected], coder3 rrhuang@ wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > there might be an another way to convert the UTC to local time zone > other > > than the following. because this doesn't take care the daylight > saving time. > > any suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > // creates a Date in local time > > var nextDay:Date = new Date("Mon May 1 2006 11:30:00 AM"); > > > > // converts the Date to UTC by adding or subtracting the time zone > offset > > var offsetMilliseconds:Number = nextDay.getTimezoneOffset() * 60 * 1000; > > nextDay.setTime(nextDay.getTime() + offsetMilliseconds); > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/convert-the-Date-to-local-time-zone-tp14428505p144\ 28505.html > > Sent from the FlexCoders mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >
