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You could myDate.split("/");

But is there a reason you don't want to use the date class?

I'll use anything.  How could I use the date class to do this?

var myDate = "8/5/2005"
var my_date:Date = new Date(myDate);

this doesn't work because new Date() wants it split up already

You don't need the date class... just use split like Rothrock suggested:

var myDate = "8/5/2005";
var split_date = myDate.split("/");
var mth = split_date.split("/")[0];
var dy = split_date.split("/")[1];
var yr = split_date.split("/")[2];

Split splits a string into an array on a specific character. So, splitting on
'/' will give you the array: ["8","5","2005"].

Sorry... what was I thinking... should be:

var myDate = "8/5/2005";
var split_date = myDate.split("/");
var mth = split_date[0];
var dy = split_date[1];
var yr = split_date[2];

to put it in the date class so I could use it's features would be nice too.  So
It looks like this works.

var myDate = "8/5/2005";
var t = myDate.split("/")
var my_date:Date = new Date(t[2],t[0]-1,t[1]);

Great!  Thanks guys

Crap, here's another problem.  What if I had:
var myDate = "8/5/2005 8:30 AM";

How could I assign that to a date class variable?

Just keep using split!

var myDate = "8/5/2005 8:30 AM";
//
var parts = myDate.split(" ");
date_string = parts[0];
time_string = parts[1];
am_pm = parts[2];
//
var t = date_string.split("/");
var u = time_string.split(":");
//
var year = parseInt(t[2],10);
var month = parseInt(t[0],10)-1;
var date = parseInt(t[1],10);
//
var hour =(am_pm=="PM") ? parseInt(u[0],10)+11 : parseInt(u[0],10)-1;
var minute = parseInt(u[1],10);
//
var my_date = new Date(year,month,date,hour,minute);

First question I would have is where are these text dates coming from?If they
are just things that you are assigning, then why not start off with a date
object?

var myDate= new Date(2005,4,8,8,30);

Or what have you.

very cool, thx.

I'm not to sure why this line
 var hour =(am_pm=="PM") ? parseInt(u[0],10)+11 : parseInt(u[0],10)-1;

doesn't read
 var hour = (am_pm == "PM") ? parseInt(u[0], 10)+12 : parseInt(u[0], 10);

But other than that I'm good.  thanks again!

Rothrock, I'm getting them from an SQL database which stores it as 8/5/2005 8:30 AM.

I just didn't want to have that involved of a question :)

Thanks

Troy

Sorry about that... didn't know what I was thinking...

You're welcome..

Actually I think there is one error. On a 12 hour clock, you have 12:00 AM to
12:00 PM to 12:00 AM. Flash counts hours from 0 to 23 where 0 is midnght and 23
is noon. So, 12 midnight should be 0. In the code above,12:00 AM is treated as
12 oclock AM in the next day...

try:

var hour = (am_pm == "PM") ? parseInt(u[0], 10)+12 : parseInt(u[0], 10);
if(hour==24) hour = 0;

Think of it this way... in flash 12 midnite comes before 1 am, not after 11
pm. We were treating the other way.

To prove my point:

var myDate = "8/5/2005 12:00 PM";
//
var parts = myDate.split(" ");
date_string = parts[0];
time_string = parts[1];
am_pm = parts[2];
//
var t = date_string.split("/");
var u = time_string.split(":");
//
var year = parseInt(t[2],10);
var month = parseInt(t[0],10)-1;
var date = parseInt(t[1],10);
//
var hour =(am_pm=="PM") ? parseInt(u[0],10)+12 : parseInt(u[0],10);
var minute = parseInt(u[1],10);
//
var my_date = new Date(year,month,date,hour,minute);
trace(myDate);
trace(my_date);

Ah that makes sense. Since I just saw you hard coding it I just had to ask. You know ? sometimes we can't see the forest for the trees. :)