Flex date starts with 1st jan, 1970 and i want to make it start from 1st Jan, 1960.

for that.. i have written some code.. but its behaving perfect in some locales and for some locales, it’s not. (specifically for the ones which has daylight saving. )

Can anyone suggest, is can this be a locale issue ? or the code one?

the sample is code is below.

var d:Date = new Date(2008, 4, 1); // May 1, 2008
var baseDateTime:Number = flexDateToBaseDate(d.getTime()); // this function will convert the base of date d from 1st Jan, 1970 to 1st Jan, 1960 and convert it in the number of miliseconds since then.

the function flexDateToBaseDate is as below.

public static function flexDateToBaseDate(dateNum:Number):int{

return (dateNum – datediffOffset )/millisInDay;

datediffOffset is calculated as below

_baseYear= 1960;
_date = new Date( _baseYeas, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0 );
_datediffOffset= _date.getTime();

var millisInDay:int = (24*60*60*1000);

can you please tell me, where am doing mistake?

Flex:
Use a custom Channel that overrides send:
message.headers["timezoneOffset"] = new Date().getTimezoneOffset();

Java:
Use a custom java adapter that overrides invoke:
int serverOffset = Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone().getOffset(new Date().getTime()) / 1000 / 60 * -1;
int clientOffset = (Integer) message.getHeader(“timezoneOffset”);
if (serverOffset != clientOffset) {
for (Object obj : ((RemotingMessage)message).getParameters()) {
if (obj instanceof Date) {
Date date = (Date) obj;
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
cal.setTime(date);
cal.add(Calendar.MINUTE, serverOffset – clientOffset);
date.setTime(cal.getTimeInMillis());
}
}
}

Example : model =
[RemoteClass(alias="org.ainflux.bdd.aintranet.evenement.Evenement")]
public class Evenement extends BaseObjectDao {
[Bindable] //dateHeureFin
public var dateHeureFin : Date;
}

public function getFormData(model) {
…code…
if (property.substring(0,4) == ‘date’) {
var dt : Date = widget.value as Date;
model[property] = new Date(dt.valueOf() – dt.getTimezoneOffset()*60000);
}
…code…
}