Creating ActionScript Date object from MySQL UTC timestamp string

Question

I\'m storing Date in datetime column of MySQL table. I\'m inserting current date by calling MySql\'s UTC_CURRENTDATE. When I retrieve it, it\'s in following string

Answer 1

Although I'm sure there's a more elegant approach; clearly you could implement a parse function such as:

public static function parse(date:String):Date
{
    var split:Array = date.split(" ");
    var splitDate:Array = split[0].split("-");
    var splitTime:Array = split[1].split(":");

    return new Date(splitDate[0],
                    splitDate[1] - 1,
                    splitDate[2],
                    splitTime[0],
                    splitTime[1],
                    splitTime[2]);
}

Called as:

var date:Date = parse("2012-07-24 12:59:58");

Instead of handling MySQL DATETIME, your SQL statements could convert to timestamps which ActionScript Date constructor would accept milliseconds since epoch.

Frameworks such as CASA Lib have nice date utility functions.