http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T23:06:46 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Date.html#85733 The Date class is final ( as are several others) for performance reasons. I also got this response:<br><br>For Date, there is also a behavioral reason. Date.toString() must produce a string which Date's constructor can parse. For a Date d, d == new Date(d.toString()). It is difficult to imagine how we could enforce that restriction on overridden toString methods. brsnyder117 1 1 2008-07-14T13:00:18 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Date.html#85731 I'll ask around and see if I can find an answer to this question. brsnyder117 1 0 2008-07-14T11:45:35 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Date.html#85587 Just out of interest, why has the Date class been made final? As now I can no longer extend it. In AS2 I used to have a nice DateExtended class which transparently added tonnes of functionality. I cannot port this directly to AS3, making my AS3 code here clumsier than in AS2 :(<br /><br />I'm sure you have good reason. I can't find any info on this elsewhere. undefine 0 0 2008-07-09T07:16:49 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Date.html#81903 No screen name,<br><br>I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do but you should be able to create some logic that uses the method getTimezoneOffset() to set the time property. Is that what you're after? djtechwriter 1 1 2008-03-13T16:12:01 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Date.html#81713 I need to work with a set of dates/times where the timezone is different from the computer's time zone. Unfortunately, the timeZone property is read only. How can this be worked out without having to manually do the offset?<br />Thanks 0 0 2008-03-09T20:33:54 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Date.html#81489 var myDate2:Date = new Date("2007/10/11 20:42:19");<br>trace(myDate2);<br><br>produces: Thu Oct 11 20:42:19 GMT-0700 2007<br><br>if I haven't misinterpreted your string. extdw_doc 1 1 2008-03-04T22:12:42 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Date.html#81386 The date constructor with the string parameter is not clear and seems to be much less flexible than its PHP conterpart. <br />Can anyone provide more info on the exact formats supported?<br />This ones that works with PHP, doesn't in AS3...<br />"2007-10-11T20:42:19Z"<br />- Philippe 0 0 2008-03-02T13:44:14 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Date.html#72937 If you are searching for Unix timestamp, POSIX timestamp, or milliseconds since the unix epoch, the property you want is "time". allaryin 0 0 2007-08-29T11:45:09