date to display

Question

I want to create a swf file which displays date in the format Tuesday, July 25, 2017 and updates it with current timeplease suggest me a solution.

ClayUUID · Accepted Answer

AS3 supports a more direct method for doing this sort of thing.

function updateDate(evt:TimerEvent):void {
    var d:Date = new Date();
    var df:DateTimeFormatter = new DateTimeFormatter(LocaleID.DEFAULT);
    df.setDateTimePattern("EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy");
    var fd:String = df.format(d);
    trace(fd);
}

DateTimeFormatter - Adobe ActionScript® 3 (AS3 ) API Reference

As for automatic updating, while you could schedule a timer to fire every 24 hours, the probability of timer drift is high. The function itself is so trivial that there would be no harm in calling it once a minute (every 60,000 milliseconds). So something like...

var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(60000);
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, updateDate);
myTimer.start();

kglad · Answer

var d:Date;var dowA:Array=['Sunday','Monday',etc];var moyA:Array=['January','February',etc];var t:Timer=new Timer(1000,0;t.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,f);t.start();function f(e:TimerEvent):void{d=new Date();tf.text = formatF(d);}function formatF(d:Date):String{return dowA[d.day]+', '+moyA[d.month]+', '+d.fullYear;}

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