Date/Time Format Showinf different in Win/Linux OS's.

Report · Sep 19, 2014

Hello All,

I know in the DateTimeFormatter page in Adobe's AS3 API reference guide (*see below for link) that is says it could display differently depending on the Operating System, if you are using Locale ID, or something along those lines (*but I'm not using that in my code)...

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/spark/formatters/DateTimeFormatte...

When viewing my DateTime variable in Linux, the Time part (*for Hours) is getting a zero added to beginning of it, if the hour is currently in the single digits, i.e. 1 through 9 am/pm. But, if I view the swf in Internet Explorer or Firefox or Chrome in Windows, the Time is not getting the Zero added to it. I was thinking I could probably just add some code to remove the zero if HOUR begins with ZERO --> "^0" Regex.

But, I wanted to see if maybe there was something in my code that could be changed to fix this instead..?

Here is my DateTime code:

//Declare a Date variable to hold the Date and Time in the Wallboard's Clock:

var date:Date = new Date();

//FORMATTING THE DATE:

        var date_formatter:DateTimeFormatter = new DateTimeFormatter("en-US");

            /*****************************************************************

             * EEEE = Day of Week            MMM = Abbrv Month Name   *

             * yyyy = Shows the Full year     dd = Day of the Month          *

             *****************************************************************/

             date_formatter.setDateTimePattern("MMM dd");                    //--> "Sep 19"

             var myDate:String = date_formatter.format(date);

        //FORMATTING THE DAY OF THE WEEK:

        var day_formatter:DateTimeFormatter = new DateTimeFormatter("en-US");

             day_formatter.setDateTimePattern("EEEE");                    //--> "Monday"

             var myDay:String = day_formatter.format(date);

        //FORMATTING THE TIME OF DAY:

        var time_formatter:DateTimeFormatter = new DateTimeFormatter("en-US");

            /*****************************************************************

             * h = Current Hour    mm = Current Minute        a = AM|PM *

             *****************************************************************/

             time_formatter.setDateTimePattern("h:mm a");

             var myTime:String = time_formatter.format(date);

       //Combine Date/Times into strings and insert into TextFIeld:

        var date_line1:String = "<font color='#FFFFFF' size=22>" + myDay + ", " + myDate + "</font>";

        var time_line2:String = "<font size=65 color='#FFFFFF'>" + myTime + "</font>";

So I then assign those strings to a TextField and display the textfield.

*Here's an example of what the TextField looks like:

Windows Shows:

_________________

| Friday, Sept 19 |

|_____2:33 PM___|

Linux Shows:

_________________

| Friday, Sept 19 |

|____02:33 PM___|

Does anyone see anything in my code that I could chnage that would fix this issue? I was thinking if there was a way to check which OS is running I could then use the correct format string depending on the OS, but I didn't see any documentation for which format strings work for which Operating System...

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks in Advance,

Matt

Report · Sep 22, 2014

Well, I still didn't find anything online about the Formatting, but I did add this code below as a workaround and it seems to be doing the trick...

################################# CODE ################################

//Create REGEX(s) to search the Time Variable for:

var leadingZero_REGEX:RegExp = /^0/gi

var nonLeadingZero_REGEX:RegExp = /^[1-9]/gi

//Check if 'myTime' begins with a "ZERO" (*for the hours section):

if (myTime.search(leadingZero_REGEX) != -1)

{

//Slice the 1st character from the myTime variable:

var tmp_myTime:String = myTime.slice(1);

//If tmp_myTIme, which is what the slice result was set to, begins with a 1 to 9, then set myTime to tmp_myTime...

if (tmp_myTime.search(nonLeadingZero_REGEX) != -1) {

myTime = tmp_myTime;

}

############################### END CODE ###############################

So with the code above, the time "01:45 PM" becomes --> "1:45 PM"...

Thanks,

Matt