[flexcoders] DateFormatter and Date Timezone Issue

[Phil Heinz]

To illustrate this issue, I have the following application:

<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
layout="absolute" creationComplete="init()">
        <mx:Script>
                <![CDATA[
                        private var _date:Date;
                
                        private function init():void {
                                _date = new Date();
                                f1.text = _date.toString();
                                f2.text = df.format(_date);
                        }
                ]]>
        </mx:Script>
        <mx:DateFormatter id="df" formatString="MM/DD/YY HH:NN" />
        <mx:VBox>
                <mx:Text id="f1" />
                <mx:Text id="f2" />
        </mx:VBox>
</mx:Application>

The output in the two fields shows:

Tue Feb 26 16:16:32 GMT-0800 2008
02/26/08 17:16

Why does the date.toString show correct time, but the formatted date
shows GMT-0700 instead? Don't they both use the client timezone?

This is a pretty simple example, I would expect both outputs would be
the same time (clients timezone).

Any ideas?
Thanks, Phil