Re: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-29 Thread Nate Beck
e cases require a client to do other kinds of timezone calculations? > Calendaring apps? > > > > - Gordon > > > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Nate Beck > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:17 AM > *To:* flexco

RE: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-28 Thread Gordon Smith
Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nate Beck Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:17 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone Timezones within Flex (or Flash in general) are a very VERY tricky thing to pull

Re: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-28 Thread Nate Beck
; >> >> >> *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On >> Behalf Of *coder3 >> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:55 PM >> *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com >> *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone >> >> &

Re: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-28 Thread Haykel BEN JEMIA
; > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *coder3 > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:55 PM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone > > > > > Right. I only have the strin

RE: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-28 Thread Gordon Smith
nt: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:55 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone Right. I only have the string. In java, there is a TimeZone class to handle it. is there something similar in Flex? Ryan Graham-3 wrote: > > > If you have access to t

Re: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hastings
Sam Lai wrote: > Doubt it - I'm not sure if those strings you have are the standard > strings anyway. There might be a web service out there you could call if you have a city name or a geographic location you can get tz info from geonames.org ala: http://www.sustainablegis.com/projects/tz/tzMap/

Re: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-27 Thread Sam Lai
Doubt it - I'm not sure if those strings you have are the standard strings anyway. There might be a web service out there you could call though to resolve them - maybe the source of those timezone strings might have something? 2009/1/28 coder3 : > > Right. I only have the string. In java, there is

RE: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-27 Thread coder3
Right. I only have the string. In java, there is a TimeZone class to handle it. is there something similar in Flex? Ryan Graham-3 wrote: > > > If you have access to the GMT offsets, sure. Otherwise, if you have just > the strings, I don't see an easy way... > > > > HTH, > > Ryan > >

RE: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-27 Thread Ryan Graham
If you have access to the GMT offsets, sure. Otherwise, if you have just the strings, I don't see an easy way... HTH, Ryan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of coder3 Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:13 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subjec