topic Re: DateFormatter for esriFieldTypeDate in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions

DateFormatter for esriFieldTypeDate

NaveenKatta — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:38:15 GMT

Hi All,

I excuted spatial query and got the results, In that results one column is esriFieldTypeDate and that value is 1131321600000.
I try to convert it to MM/DD/YYYY using DateFormatter but It is not working. Any idea??

Thanks,
Naveen

Re: DateFormatter for esriFieldTypeDate

NaveenKatta — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:53:25 GMT

I got the solution:

var sDate:Date = new Date(dateString);
var s2:String=DateField.dateToString(sDate,"MM/DD/YYYY ")

Re: DateFormatter for esriFieldTypeDate

LanceGoens — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:03:11 GMT

Can you show more of your code? I have a similar issue from an attribute query. The Graphic(s) contained in the returned FeatureSet contain attributes of esriFieldTypeDate but it's not displaying in any known date format. If your code above works, how are you detecting that the attribute is of the date format?

Re: DateFormatter for esriFieldTypeDate

PierreLarondelle — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 08:48:32 GMT

Hello,

Here's the way I'm dealing the date format returned in esriFieldTypeDate type in an ItemRenderer :

data.datereservon = the value in esriFieldTypeDate from the FeatureLayer

dfData = Datefield in ItemRenderer.

It's certainly not the most elegant way of coding it but it gives complete control on the final "look" of your date.

Hope it helps ...

			protected function parseDateResOn():void
			{
				YourDateFormatterID.formatString = "DD/MM/YYYY";
				var dateOn:Date = new Date(data.datereservon);
				var dayFromDateStringed:String = dateOn.date.toString();
				var monthFromDateStringed:String = dateOn.month.toString();
				var yearFromDateStringed:String = dateOn.fullYear.toString();
				var dateResOn:String = dayFromDateStringed + "/" + monthFromDateStringed + "/" + yearFromDateStringed;
				dfData.text = dateResOn;
				//data.datereservon = dateResOn;
			}

Re: DateFormatter for esriFieldTypeDate

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:56:28 GMT

Pierre,

Here is another way:

import spark.formatters.DateTimeFormatter;
var dateFormatter:DateTimeFormatter = new DateTimeFormatter();
var dateOn:Date = new Date(data.datereservon);
dateFormatter.dateTimePattern = "DD/MM/YYYY";
dfData.text = dateFormatter.format(dateOn);

Re: DateFormatter for esriFieldTypeDate

PierreLarondelle — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:13:57 GMT

Short and efficient, thanks a lot Robert for sharing the best practices in Flex coding !

Pierre.