Question

I am using FLEX 3.0 I want to convert string to Date. At first i just think its very easy for me but later its going to be very hard its a simple one but i can’t convert that i have got an error. So please help me.

Hours in 24 hour format. if 7 hour than it shows 07. this one is same for minutes, seconds, date & month.

Here i am providing you the code that i have did till that time…

public function btn_click():void
{
    var str:String = lblDate.text;
    var d:Date = DateField.stringToDate(str,"YYY-MM-DD HH:NN:SS");
    Alert.show(d.toString());
}

<mx:HBox height="5%" width="100%">
    <mx:Label id="lblDate" text="2011-12-07 11:06:01" />
    <mx:Button label="Click" click="{btn_click();}" />
</mx:HBox>

Please Help me as early as possible

Answer 1

According to the documentation, the stringToDate method can only parse patterns containing Y, M, D and delimiter and punctuation characters. So by using H,M and S, you specify invalid characters in the pattern, which in turn determine the method to return null, that’s why you get the error.

A more appropriate approach would be to use the DateFormatter class, as illustrated in this post here.

Hope this was useful. Have a good day.