flex3 Format date without timezone
- by Maurits de Boer
I'm receiving a date from a server in milliseconds since 1-1-1970. I then use the DateFormatter to print the date to the screen. However, Flex adds timedifference and thus it displays a different time than what I got from the server. I've fixed this by changing the date before printing to screen. But I think that's a bad solution because the date object doesn't hold the correct date.
Does anyone know how to use the dateFormatter to print the date, ignoring the timezone?
this is how I did it:
function getDateString(value:Date):String
{
var millisecondsPerMinute:int = 1000*60;
var newDate:Date = new Date(value.time - (millisecondsPerMinute*value.timezoneOffset));
var dateFormatter:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter();
dateFormatter.formatString = "EEEE DD-MM-YYYY LL:MM AA";
return dateFormatter.format(newDate);
}
