ActionScript Date Comparison
I was just staring a a piece of ActionScript code trying to figure out why the two date objects I was comparing were not coming up equal. I'm ashamed to say I didn't notice the problem at first because I had mistakenly typed
if(date1 = date2)
Two equals signs ("==") work a little better than one since the single operator obviously changes the value of the former operand. :) Once I fixed that, I found my real problem.
Turns out that ActionScript (like JavaScript) does not like to compare dates directly. It stores them as a number of milliseconds since an epoch date on January 1st, 1970. The .getTime() method of a date object will return you those milliseconds which is what you use to make the comparison.
if(date1.getTime() == date2.getTime())
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You can also do it with mx.utils.ObjectUtil::dateCompare(date, date).
# Posted By radekg
| 10/15/08 1:58 AM
@Radekg: Thanks. You are always full of good advice. :)
# Posted By Brad Wood
| 10/15/08 2:37 AM
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