I guess I can modify the date format returned by MySQL ... ie date_format(last_modified, '%a %b %e %Y %r') ... but still, flex is pretty limited here.
_____ From: Mark Easton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:22 PM To: 'flexcoders@yahoogroups.com' Subject: Convert String to Date? Gosh, I cant believe I am asking this question. But, other than parsing the string I cannot see anyway to obviously convert my string to a date format. My string is returned from a SQL query and passed to my app via XML. So my string is in the format: YYY-MM-DD HH:M:SS. This is a standard SQL format. So why can I not easily convert that in to a date format in flex? I have looked at the Date and DateField classes but no help there. DateField.stringToDate for instance only accepts date formats (no time). Date for instance wants a date in the format (as follows) ... var date:Date = new Date("Mon May 1 2006 11:30:00 AM"); Hmmm - what a pain! Any one have a solution? TIA Mark <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=12286167/grpspId=1705007207/msgI d=125320/stime=1221523430/nc1=4507179/nc2=3848641/nc3=4836036>
