Developing RIA’s with Flex2 in Colombia

Searching in flex documentation I have found that parseDateString is a protected method… (why protected? it really sucks…)

If you need a “quick and dirty” method to parse a date from a string, maybe this could help you:

public class DateUtil {

public static function parseString(stringDate:String) : Date{
var milis:Number = Date.parse(stringDate);
return new Date(milis);
}
}


stringDate Format restrictions (From Date Documentation):

The Time Zone Designation (TZD) is always in the form GMT-HHMM or UTC-HHMM indicating the hour and minute offset relative to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which is now also called universal time (UTC). The year month and day terms can be separated by a forward slash (/) or by spaces, but never by a dash (-). Other supported formats include the following (you can include partial representations of these formats; that is, just the month, day, and year):

     MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS TZD

     HH:MM:SS TZD Day Mon/DD/YYYY

     Mon DD YYYY HH:MM:SS TZD

     Day Mon DD HH:MM:SS TZD YYYY

     Day DD Mon HH:MM:SS TZD YYYY

     Mon/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS TZD

     YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS TZD