Looking at the ASP .NET Date Tutorial at
http://www.easerve.com/developer/tutorials/asp-net-tutorials-dates.aspx
you can figure out how the dates work. Using that I came up with the
following which should help you out:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application pageTitle=World Time
I agree with you 100% Josh but the better ones want the all might $$
and my company isn't willing to pay for it, it's just nice to have.
So I need to find a free one or give it up. But I'm not willing to
do that just yet... soon, but not yet. :-)
They do have have some pseudocode on the
Verify that you get midnight Jan 1, 1 AD from the following and
you'll have the epoch adjustment value:
new Date( -6213559680 ).toUTCString()
Converting from timeticks returned by your webservice:
var epochAdjustment: Number = -6213559680;
var d: Date = new Date ( CurrentTimeTicks /
The .net Date stuff will work sensibly and probably just like Flash's, so
I'd start with copying their code and work from there :)
-Josh
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with you 100% Josh but the better ones want the all might $$
and my company isn't
I tried a few things along those lines and not even getting close...
really:
setDate = new Date(nanoSeconds/1000 - new Date().getTime());
RETURNS Tue Jun 20 09:55:17 GMT-0400 1933
setDate = new Date(nanoSeconds/(60*1000) - new Date().getTime
()); RETURNS Tue Jun 30 09:26:26 GMT-0400
Sorry, I missed a parameter in there - that should have been new Date
(0).
new Date( CurrentTimeTicks / 1 - new Date(0).getTime() )
If you truly have a 100ns count since 1 AD as CurrentTimeTicks (the
math works out, but you should still verify that with the webservice
if possible), then
Bah. Obviously I'm not testing any of this myself - I'm leaving that
up to you!
A call to new Date(0).getTime() will just return 0, so that won't
work. What you need is the number of milliseconds *between* 1 AD
00:00:00 UTC and Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. I don't think there's a
way to use
Switch to a different web service, or call whoever provides it and get some
documentation :)
What the hell is 1AD? We haven't been keeping nice records since like 200AD
or something.
And do they count all the various leap seconds? What about that time when
some pope rejigged the calendar and we
I asked this question going into a weekend so I wanted to re-ask it
today and see if anyone has any ideas on how to work this?
Thank You,
Mark
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wrote:
The Web Service I found returns a few key pieces of data but I'm
not
sure how to
All typed off the top of my head in gmail and untested:
//Get a date for the UTC time numbers will match, but will be in local time
var foreignTime:Date = new Date(CurrentTimeTicks);
//Strip our current (local) offset (check my -/+ math!)
foreignTime.time -= foreignTime.getTimeZoneOffset() *
Actually the problem is that the CurrentTimeTicks and UtcOffsetTicks
is returned in nanoseconds or increment of 100 nanoseconds so I
can't use, new Date(CurrentTimeTicks);. It returns as not a date
Here's how the XML looks:
TimeZoneInfo
NameDateline Standard Time/Name
CurrentTimeTicks looks like a 100ns count from the year 1 AD. You
could try:
new Date( CurrentTimeTicks/1 - new Date().getTime() )
Then use the Date.toString() or Date.toUTCString() method to examine
the result. You may need to adjust if CurrentTimeTicks isn't
relative to UTC.
Also,
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