Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-16 Thread Ricky Bacon
Dale Fraser wrote: That whole milliseconds past 1970 is a Java thing and has bitten me before, one of many reasons we ditched Java. It's actually a Unix thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time The standard has been around for almost 40 years. -Ricky

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hastings
Ricky Bacon wrote: It's actually a Unix thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time no dale's right, java is *milliseconds* since epoch start, unix is *seconds*.

RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Tracy Spratt
Pass the date as a string. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Kukiel Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 3:17 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones. I have a

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Beck
I'm working on timezone support within flash that I'm going to release as open source very soon. I'll update this thread when I do. But Tracy is right, you can always just pass a string from the server. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Tracy Spratt tspr...@lariatinc.com wrote: Pass the date

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Paul Kukiel
Thanks Tracy, I knew I was going to get this answer. I already got this working with strings as a test sample looks like I have to convert the rest of the app. Surely others are feeling my pain with this issue. And Nate I look forward to seeing what you have come up with when its

RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Dale Fraser
Fraser http://learncf.com/ http://learncf.com http://flexcf.com/ http://flexcf.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Kukiel Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2008 1:46 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Josh McDonald
http://flexcf.com *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Kukiel *Sent:* Tuesday, 16 December 2008 1:46 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones. Thanks Tracy, I knew I was going

RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Randy Martin
: Monday, December 15, 2008 9:51 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones. Why does Flex do this? If I get a date out of the db and want to deal with it as a date, surely this should be possible. How can the flash player determine it needs to change

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Josh McDonald
:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Dale Fraser *Sent:* Monday, December 15, 2008 9:51 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones. Why does Flex do this? If I get a date out of the db and want to deal

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Beck
the problem here??? ~randy *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Dale Fraser *Sent:* Monday, December 15, 2008 9:51 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones. Why does Flex do this? If I

RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Dale Fraser
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones. I guess I really don't understand what the problem is here?? I have a smalldatetime (or a datetime) in a MSSQL database. I setup a value object in AS to have the date field as a Date object. I go get the date from

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Doug McCune
://learncf.com http://flexcf.com *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Randy Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, 16 December 2008 3:52 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones. I guess I really don't

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Josh McDonald
Fraser http://learncf.com http://flexcf.com *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Randy Martin *Sent:* Tuesday, 16 December 2008 3:52 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones. I guess I

RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Dale Fraser
@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones. It's not that Flash Player decides it wants to convert the Date to a different timezone. It's about what data Flash Player has about that Date. When a Date is sent over the wire, particularly when using AMF either with Blaze or CF

RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Dale Fraser
[mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2008 4:38 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones. Seriously? AMF doesn't send timezone? Wow... We use SOAP, so all my problems simply come from the fact that Date