Question

I have a service that give me a date time string in the following format

2012-03-19T12:59:00Z

I need to convert that into a Date object in flex 4. How do I do this?

Answer 1

Have a look at Date.parse().

It looks like you might need to do a String.replace() or similar operation on the String you pass to the parse() method, for it to succeed.

A better solution, if it is under your control, is to have the service return the date/time string as an epoch time (in milliseconds). Then on the Flash side, you can just construct a new Date object passing in the time (in milliseconds) to the constructor:

var dateTime:Date = new Date(epoch_time_in_millis);