Question

I could not find a method in Flex Date object to get the week of year (1 to 52)

What is the best way to find this? Is there any useful library for flex for such date operations like JodaTime in Java.

Answer 1

I’m not aware of a library, but this function will get you the week index (zero based).

function getWeek(date:Date):Number
{
  var days:Array = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31]; 
  var year:Number = date.fullYearUTC;
  var isLeap:Boolean = (year % 4 == 0) && (year % 100 != 0)
                       || (year % 100 == 0) && (year % 400 == 0); 
  if(isLeap)
    days[1]++;

  var d = 0;
  //month is conveniently 0 indexed.
  for(var i = 0; i < date.month; i++)
    d += days[i];
  d += date.dateUTC;

  var temp:Date = new Date(year, 0, 1);
  var jan1:Number = temp.dayUTC;
  /**
   * If Jan 1st is a Friday (as in 2010), does Mon, 4th Jan 
   * fall in the first week or the second one? 
   *
   * Comment the next line to make it in first week
   * This will effectively make the week start on Friday 
   * or whatever day Jan 1st of that year is.
   **/
  d += jan1;

  return int(d / 7);
}