Not to worry I figured a way to calculate the real offset. I do think it is really a big flaw in the Date object that Adobe dont provide access to this figure even though they know what it is.
tks --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "reflexactions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Need a quick fix for this problem. > > When I "print" a date object it tell me the tiemzone offset is GMT- 0400. > > However when I get a date object and call its getTimezoneOffset > function I get 5hrs not 4hrs. > > The difference is daylight savings and yes I have in my (XPPro) system > I have checked to adjust for daylight savings. > > The problem this is causing is that some date calcualtions I need to > make where I have to adjust for the timezoneoffset are one hour off. > > Seems odd to me... > > But is there a way to find out the correct current tiemzone offset i.e. > the 4 hrs flex prints rather than the 5 hrs it returns from the method > call. > > tks >
