I haven't thought much about these issues (Not My Area of Expertise!) so I'm wondering...
Assuming that your machine's timezone is always set correctly, doesn't the Player use that as the local timezone? Isn't there some easy way to translate this into Universal Time or whatever it's called for use on the back end? And then can't Flash clients in other time zones make the conversion to their local time zone based on their machine's timezone? What use 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: 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 off. I've been writing a DateTime proxy object that supports Timezones, and I now understand why the Flex team hasn't worked with Timezones yet. They are a mess. Is the Timezone daylight savings? What about Arizona... they don't do daylight savings at all? So to be completely honest with you. It's an extremely hard thing to do especially within the flash player itself. The best way to get around it is to build an infastructure that uses java, .NET or some other language which has already done the work to support timezones, and then build a flex piece that can work with that. HTH, Nate On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Haykel BEN JEMIA <hayke...@gmail.com<mailto:hayke...@gmail.com>> wrote: You could probably use the tz database [ http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm ]. Download the data archive [ ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2009a.tar.gz ] which contains different files with time zone information. The file 'zone.tab' contains geographic coordinates for the principal locations of the zones (perhaps you can use this data). The other files contain time zone data (GMT offsets and other data). I think the 'Zone' entries are what you need. Haykel Ben Jemia Allmas Web & RIA Development http://www.allmas-tn.com<http://www.allmas-tn.com/> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Gordon Smith <gosm...@adobe.com<mailto:gosm...@adobe.com>> wrote: > In java, there is a TimeZone class to handle it. > is there something similar in Flex? No, sorry, there isn't anything comparable in the Flex framework. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of coder3 Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:55 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto: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 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:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] On > Behalf Of coder3 > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:13 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone > > > > > Hi All > > i have 3 timezone strings, for example, "America/Thule", > "Indian/Maldives", > and "Europe/Luxembourg". is there a way to sort them from east to west? > > thanks!! > c > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/flex-date-and-timezone-tp21695609p21695609.html > Sent from the FlexCoders mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in > error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/flex-date-and-timezone-tp21695609p21696340.html Sent from the FlexCoders mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Cheers, Nate ---------------------------------------- http://blog.natebeck.net
