Formatting the Date

[Brusca]

Hi Guys,
I have a date field which is coming into Flash from a .net webservice. It is being called on from a webservice class (not a component...and not my choice). But the date field comes into flash formatted like this.

Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 GMT+1000 2003

I was curious to know if there was a simple way to format this date in flash to display the date like this.

24/12/2003

Cheers if anyone can help

Brusca

[CyanBlue]

Howdy and Welcome...

No... There isn't really easy way to change that format...
It might not be the closest one, but I have seen a couple of date format related prototypes at Layer51...
http://proto.layer51.com

Go check it out and modify the script and I think it will be easier to do it that way...

Please do not crosspost... We hate people doing that... Besides, this question does not really have much to do with that server side forum except that you are calling a web service...

[farafiro]

var d:Date = new Date();
trace(d.getDate()+"/"+d.getMonth()+"/"+d.getFullYear());

[CyanBlue]

farafiro... That will work for most of the cases, but he wanted to get the date from this string that he gets from the webservice call...

Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 GMT+1000 2003

[farafiro]

I don't get what you/he mean by that
but if you know the format you can do it by a simple array and a subString or a subStr to split it and reorganise it

[Brusca]

its ok I worked it out.

I was trying the substr method at first but it was not reliable as some days are 2 digits and others 1 digit.

all I did was convert the date that was coming from my webservice to a new date.

EventDate = new Date();
EventDate = Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 GMT+1000 2003 //value coming in from web service


myDay = EventDate.getDate();
myMonth = EventDate.getMonth()+1; // allow for the month array
myYear = EventDate.getYear();

newDateFormat = myDay + "/" + myMonth + "/" + myYear;

Hope that helps someone who may have thje same issues.

Cheers Brusca

[divarch]

Hello, the easiest way would be like this:

myDate=new Date();
day=myDate.getDate();
month=myDate.getMonth()+1;
year="0"+(myDate.getYear()-100)
newDate=[];
newDate.push(day+"/"+month+"/"+year)

trace(newDate[0])

//outputs 15/12/03 

You don't need arrays for that, I am just kinda used to them.
You can join it all in a single string also.
You can format the year as 03, or you can leave it in YYYY format,
Hope this helps.

[nicetim]

i need to do the same thing, except in my case, i am using components
A webserviceConnect, a DataSet and a DataGrid.
The date ends up in the grid with that extremly long formatting. I tried to change the components to format that field but it dosnt work.

Please help

Thanks
tim

[alexurquhart]

Does ANYBODY know how to do this, I have seen nothing but unanswered questions on this. How do you format the date before it populates a datagrid.

[sudheery]

You can achieve date formatting like this:

Step 1:  In your mxml file (where you have the data grid) declare a date formatter like this:

<mx:DateFormatter id="df" formatString="MM/DD/YYYY" />

Step 2:
   In your Script block in the same .mxml file i.e., inside "<mx:Script>	<![CDATA[ ........] </mx:Script", define the following function:

 private function displayFormattedDate(d:Object,c:DataGridColumn):String {
	var retval : String = "";
	try {
	    retval = df.format(d[c.dataField]);
	}catch (errObject:Error) { }
        return retval;
 }

Step 3:
  Add this function to your column in data grid
  ex: 
  <mx:DataGrid ....>
    ......
    ......
     <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="itemDate"  labelFunction="displayFormattedDate"/>
    .....
    .....
  </mx:DataGrid>

Hope that helps.

Sudheer

Originally Posted by nicetim

i need to do the same thing, except in my case, i am using components
A webserviceConnect, a DataSet and a DataGrid.
The date ends up in the grid with that extremly long formatting. I tried to change the components to format that field but it dosnt work.

Please help

Thanks
tim