Thank you, this is working nicely
-Mark
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Doug Lowder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Your math is OK, but for timezones that support Daylight Savings
Time
> your logic isn't. In those timezones, not every day will be
exactly
> 24 hours long. A quick way to verify is to make the following
change:
>
> hListArray.addItem(lastDate.toUTCString());
>
> If you need dates converted to local time, you'll have to adjust
for
> the timezone offset of the date in question. I think the
following
> should work:
>
> var lastDate:Date = new Date(nextDay);
> lastDate.setTime(lastDate.getTime() - lastDate.getTimezoneOffset
()
> *60000);
> hListArray.addItem(lastDate.toLocaleString());
>
> You may also have a few issues to sort out regarding the timezone
of
> the stored dates, and how those stored values are initially
converted
> to local dates.
>
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <pusateri02@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm having some problems with my, I think, math for getting all
the
> > days into an arrayCollection. It works well on items with less
> time
> > between start and end dates such as a few days or months apart.
> But
> > when it gets up to about 200+ days something strange happens, it
> > changes from Date "Sun Nov 5 2006 12:00:00 AM" to "Sun Nov 5
2006
> > 11:00:00 PM". Then a few months down it will switch back to
12.
> So
> > I guess that's why I think it may be my Math. I'd like someone
to
> > double check what I'm doing because I can't see the error. The
> > dates are stored like "2007,12,25"
> >
> >
> >
> > var StartDate:String = item.startDate;
> > var startResults:Array = StartDate.split(",");
> > var nsd:Date = new Date(startResults[0],startResults[1]-
> > 1,startResults[2],0,0,0,0);
> > trace("SD " + nsd);
> > //
> > var ENDDate:String = item.endDate;
> > var ENDResults:Array = ENDDate.split(",");
> > var ned:Date = new Date(ENDResults[0],ENDResults[1]-1,ENDResults
> > [2],0,0,0,0);
> > trace("ED " + ned);
> > // test for all days
> > var millisecondsPerDay:int = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 //86400000;
> > var totalDays:Number = (ned.getTime() - nsd.getTime
> > ())/millisecondsPerDay+1;
> > trace("total " + totalDays);
> > var nextDay:Number = nsd.getTime();
> >
> > hListArray.removeAll();
> > for(var i:int = 0; i<totalDays; i++){
> > var lastDate:Date = new Date(nextDay)
> > hListArray.addItem(lastDate.toLocaleString());
> > nextDay += millisecondsPerDay;
> > }
> >
>
