Comments on: DateFormatter parseDateString Replacement(

By: DIGITALUnderworld

DIGITALUnderworld — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:27:26 +0000

Can this be used to localize the date? I have mt resource bundle setup to get the translations for Spanish, but not sure how to get the day/month through a date formatter.

By: Rey Nacho Lives » Blog Archive » DateFormatter parseDateString workaround

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:41:50 +0000

[...] I ran into a situation recently which required me to parse a string into a Date object in Flex. After some searching I found that there’s a wonderful little method in the DateFormatter class called parseDateString. Unfortunately, that method is protected and I couldn’t gain access to it. Luckily, I came accross a blog post that provided a wonderful solution: http://flex2colombia.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/dateformatter-parsedatestring-replacement/ [...]

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:15:15 +0000

This works for me and probably allow to use more formatting options:

var date : Date = new Date(new DateFormatter().format(“01 Apr 08″));

By: Deepak Bhatia

Deepak Bhatia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:24:36 +0000

Thanks. Nice way to handle.

By: Ernest

Ernest — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:49:06 +0000

Class mx.controls.DateField has a static function with signature

stringToDate(valueString:String,inputFormat:String):Date

It does not read time information though, but it works for me.

By: dersteppenwolf

dersteppenwolf — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:32:59 +0000

mmm extending DateFormatter
nice trick

By: George Varro

George Varro — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:20:48 +0000

If the parseDateString method is protected, make it to “public” with a little trick!

Make a new class with a public static method and in it you can invoke the parseDateString and it will return with a Date object!

package utils
{
import mx.formatters.DateFormatter;
public class DateUtil extends DateFormatter
{
public static function parseDate(str:String):Date {
return parseDateString(str);
}
}
}

Notice:
And with this class the “but never by a dash (-)” limitation is gone forever!

regards,
George