[flexcoders] Re: datefield issue
I feel like I hacked it but I added a .sethours(12,0,0,0) at the top of the code before it saves dispatches the event.. Is there a less hacky-feeling fix for this? this works fine but leaves a bad taste in my mouth On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Greg Morphis wrote: > out of the pan and into the fire > > I have a datefield and I choose for example April 1, the date saves as 3/31. > If I choose 3/31, it saves 3/30.. > Is this a timezone issue with Flex? is this easy to fix? > When I Alert the value I see > Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 GMT -0500 2009 (when I choose March 31st) > So why isnt it staying on March 31st? > > Thanks! >
[flexcoders] Re: datefield issue
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Greg Morphis wrote: > > out of the pan and into the fire > > I have a datefield and I choose for example April 1, the date saves as 3/31. Greg, Flex / Flash actually remotes dates without consideration of their Timezone offsets (so 4/1/2009 00:00 sent from a SWF in GMT-0500 remotes as 3/31/2009 22:00 when sent to a server in GMT-0700). This Flex cookbook entry summarizes the problem and provides one possible solution: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&productId=2&postId=12168 Another solution would be to ditch the Date type altogether for mid-tier transmission and send dates as strings. We implemented this approach on my team with minimal suffering :) You'll obviously have to parse the string when sending or receiving, but if the date is in a perdictable string-format, it will work fine. On the Flex side, use a DateFormatter for sending and transform the received date-strings into dates via new Date(Date.parse(someServerDateString)).
Re: [flexcoders] Re: datefield issue
Months are 0-based in ecmascript (JS, AS, etc.) Date objects. 0 = jan., 1 = feb., etc. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/Date.html#month Use a date formatter if you need to format this to a string and don't want to manually convert the month offset. (probably a good idea to use the date formatter anyway when you're dealing with locales.) On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Greg Morphis wrote: > I feel like I hacked it but I added a .sethours(12,0,0,0) > at the top of the code before it saves dispatches the event.. > Is there a less hacky-feeling fix for this? this works fine but leaves > a bad taste in my mouth > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Greg Morphis > > > wrote: > > out of the pan and into the fire > > > > I have a datefield and I choose for example April 1, the date saves as > 3/31. > > If I choose 3/31, it saves 3/30.. > > Is this a timezone issue with Flex? is this easy to fix? > > When I Alert the value I see > > Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 GMT -0500 2009 (when I choose March 31st) > > So why isnt it staying on March 31st? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- Beau D. Scott Software Engineer
Re: [flexcoders] Re: datefield issue
wait, my bad, I misread. disregard my previous remark. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Beau Scott wrote: > Months are 0-based in ecmascript (JS, AS, etc.) Date objects. 0 = jan., 1 = > feb., etc. > http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/Date.html#month > > Use a date formatter if you need to format this to a string and don't want > to manually convert the month offset. (probably a good idea to use the date > formatter anyway when you're dealing with locales.) > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Greg Morphis wrote: > >> I feel like I hacked it but I added a .sethours(12,0,0,0) >> at the top of the code before it saves dispatches the event.. >> Is there a less hacky-feeling fix for this? this works fine but leaves >> a bad taste in my mouth >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Greg Morphis >> > >> wrote: >> > out of the pan and into the fire >> > >> > I have a datefield and I choose for example April 1, the date saves as >> 3/31. >> > If I choose 3/31, it saves 3/30.. >> > Is this a timezone issue with Flex? is this easy to fix? >> > When I Alert the value I see >> > Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 GMT -0500 2009 (when I choose March 31st) >> > So why isnt it staying on March 31st? >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> >> > > > > -- > Beau D. Scott > Software Engineer > -- Beau D. Scott Software Engineer
