Date in the Datagrid

[leoalvesmachado]

Hi everyone

I recieve from a Java back end application a list of objects to populate my
Datagrid. One field of these objects is "creation time" - a long value that
holds the time when the object was created. How do I convert this long to a
Date in my Datafield?

thanks in advance

[anoweb]

You could try, new Date(Date.parse(<your java value here>))

I am in a similar situation but I wasn't sure how to get it done. So I just
ended up doing a .ToString on the date/time object before giving to it to Flex.

[javamonjoe]

You need to specify a label function for your column. With the label function you may format your data in any way you wish without actually changing the data.

[ntsiii]

If it is a long, then it must be something likd "ticks" or milliseconds since
som data. I do not know java well enough, or when it starts its dates, but it
may not be the same a AS.

So I thinkAnoweb's idea, convert the long into some recognizable date string
on the server is a good idea. i am standardizing on the ISO date string format:
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss-[timezoneoffset]

Note that the AS data.parse cannot read that directly drat it, so I have a
library ov conversion funtions to work with that format.

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