that's great thanks for all your help guys
because i'm using as2, i've decided to go with the Date.getTime()/Date.setTime() and get the serverside devs to spit out the number in milliseconds using time() (possibly *1000) as i can pass that straight to the Date object and let that work everything out for me. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Mark Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > This is a good format to follow for date and time in XML: > http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime . > > Eg: > > Year: > YYYY (eg 1997) > Year and month: > YYYY-MM (eg 1997-07) > Complete date: > YYYY-MM-DD (eg 1997-07-16) > Complete date plus hours and minutes: > YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20+01:00) > Complete date plus hours, minutes and seconds: > YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00) > Complete date plus hours, minutes, seconds and a decimal fraction of a > second > YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30.45+01:00) > > where: > > YYYY = four-digit year > MM = two-digit month (01=January, etc.) > DD = two-digit day of month (01 through 31) > hh = two digits of hour (00 through 23) (am/pm NOT allowed) > mm = two digits of minute (00 through 59) > ss = two digits of second (00 through 59) > s = one or more digits representing a decimal fraction of a second > TZD = time zone designator (Z or +hh:mm or -hh:mm) > > There's even a method in the DateUtil class included in the AS3CoreLib that > parses this format. > > - Mark > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:48 AM, allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi guys > > > > i'm speccing an xml file for a server side dev that needs to return a > > target > > date and time and i wanted to make sure i wasn't doing anything stupid > > > > what would a php dev be expecting to use for time / date and how would > that > > be supplied in an xml file? And what would the best way of converting the > > return string for flash to use? > > > > I was thinking something along the lines of > > <data date="2008,08,26" time="12,0,0" /> > > > > and using something like > > > > var sDate:String = node.attributes.date; > > var sTime:String = node.attributes.time; > > > > var arDate:Array = sDate.split(","); > > var nYear:Number = Number(arDate[0]); > > var nMonth:Number = Number(arDate[1]-1); // months start at 0 > > var nDate:Number = Number(arDate[2]); > > > > var arTime:Array = sTime.split(","); > > var nTimeHours:Number = Number(arTime[0]); > > var nTimeMinutes:Number = Number(arTime[1]); > > var nTimeSeconds:Number = Number(arTime[2]); > > > > var targetDate:Date = new Date(nYear, nMonth, nDate, nTimeHours, > > nTimeMinutes, nTimeSeconds); > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
