A simple way to parse dates from different formats could be to define the pattern as RB property and then use that property by DateFormat.
Giuseppe Sent from Samsung Mobile Harbs <[email protected]> wrote: Funny that I need the same functionality at the same time… I actually need to parse a date from an unknown format. This is obviously much more complex, because something like 1/2/14 could mean either January 2 or February 1 depending on the locale. I do think this type of functionality belongs in DateFormat. Harbs On Feb 1, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Christofer Dutz wrote: > Hi Hemadri, > > Thanks for that pointer. Seems to be what I've been looking for. > > How about integrating this functionality into the DateFormat class ... for me > this seems to be the most natural place to have it? > > Chris > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Hemadri Seelamsetty [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Samstag, 1. Februar 2014 17:49 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Simple way to parse I18N dates? > > Chris, > > You can also use the static methods of mx.controls.DateField Class. > > Below are the signatures of the static methods > > DateField.dateToString(value:Date, outputFormat:String):String > DateField.stringToDate(valueString:String, inputFormat:String):Date > > Example: var dob:Date = DateField.stringToDate("02/01/2014", "MM/DD/YYYY"); > > It can contain "M","D","Y", and delimiter and punctuation characters > > > -- > Hemadri <http://hemadri.com> > > > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Christofer Dutz > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am currently sort of stuck with implementing some functionality. >> >> I know I can use a DateFormatter to define a formatted string from a >> given date, but I couldn't actually find something for the other way around. >> The Java equivalent usually has a "parse" and a "format" method >> allowing to read a date from a string and to return a date and a >> format to serialize a date to a desired output format. It seems the >> Flex version is missing the parse part ... What do I have to use for this? >> >> Chris >>
