I don't remember a discussion about this, but it could be I was not paying attention.
In my case, I have the luxury of knowing what the locale is supposed to be. Of course there are an incredible number of variables to deal with... :-( Using Java sounds like an interesting approach. I'll have to look into that... On Feb 2, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Paul Hastings wrote: > On 2/2/2014 4:53 PM, Harbs wrote: >> I just looked at DateField.stringToDate(). >> >> It looks like it only supports "M", "D" and "Y". That means it does not >> support weekdays or any time formatters. >> >> I guess I'm going to have to roll my own function� > > > parsing dates is another kind of "hell" i18n developers can fall into. if > this is coming from a server might be easiest to use java (icu4j) to do the > parsing & pass java epoch offsets back to the flex app to format based on > user locale. letting folks enter dates arbitrarily is a tough nut to crack > after the fact, especially lacking info about that user's locale. > > btw wasn't there a discussion here last year about this? > >
