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Many different applications hook into this system and I don't have the luxury of changing anything other than my Flex application to make it match the rest of the system.
My Goal: My Flex application should allow a user to enter a Date and Time, which I store into a Date Type. For example:"11/16/2006 03:00:00 PM" would be entered by a user in Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5)."11/16/2006 03:00:00 PM" would be entered by a user in Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8)."11/16/2006 03:00:00 PM" would be entered by a user in Moscow (GMT+3).
Each of those Dates would be saved in my database as: "11/16/2006 03:00:00 "
My Problem:AMF3 no longer supports a Timezone Offset. See "AMF3 Specification" at OSFlash.org. I currently can take a Date & Time from my Database -> Backend (.NET in this case) > Gateway (Fluorine in this case) -> AMF3 and in reverse from AMF3 -> Gateway -> Backend -> Database without the Date or Time being modified in any way and without any Timezone information.
The problem is, Flex assumes the AMF3 information is in UTC(GMT). So as soon AMF3 is deserialzed into Flex, the Flex Date is modified to the client's local timezone offset.
What I want is all three of the dates above to show up in Flex, regardless of the client timezone, as "11/16/2006 03:00:00 PM" and I don't want to have to manually display the UTC Date all over my Flex application in order to do this. This would include if the Date is a member in a ValueObject.
My Solution (Work in Progress):Everytime a Date is brought into Flex, I call a function:
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Actionscript:
public static function getUTCDate(myDate:Date):Date
{
return new Date(myDate.fullYearUTC, myDate.monthUTC, myDate.dateUTC, myDate.hoursUTC, myDate.minutesUTC, myDate.secondsUTC, myDate.millisecondsUTC);
}
which is called as
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Actionscript:
flexDate = DateUtil.getUTCDate(flexDate);
Everytime a Date is sent from Flex, I call a function:
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Actionscript:
public static function sendUTCDate(myDate:Date):Date
{
var sDate:Date = new Date(Date.UTC(myDate.fullYear, myDate.month, myDate.date, myDate.hours, myDate.minutes, myDate.seconds, myDate.milliseconds));
return sDate;
}
which is called as
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Actionscript:
flexDate = DateUtil.sendUTCDate(flexDate);
My WishSomething that would make this automatic for me. Either a way to tell the AMF3 Date Deserialization to be saved as a Local Date, or some way to not make me call manually call these functions every time a Date is deserialized or serialized.
Many Thanks to Anyone with Any Ideas!
