Date

I had an email this evening about parsing Facebook timestamps in Actionscript 3. The format for timestamps is defined in RFC3339 which as I’ve discussed previously, is a profile of…

Getting external data into Herodotus is an important part of the project. Data can be encoded in a wide array of formats and they all have to be parsed into…

The demo above attempts to locate your current position on the earth. I can’t take any credit for the 3D stuff as I based it on Andy Zupko’s great post…

The semantics of time have been defined by just about every standards body you can shake an egg timer at. Even within the internet space you will find overlapping definitions…

After reviewing what I want to achieve from the project I have identified seven areas I need to work on. Each area will become its own project and is named…

I’ve left properties and methods to the end because they are already well documented in the official docs. They are really just here for completeness. If you have worked with…

The AS3 Date class constructor is very accommodating: It actually supports four separate ways of defining a new Date object. Each of the following examples creates an instance of a…

Local time The same moment in time has a unique local interpretation depending upon the time of year and your position on Earth. The operating system provides the Flash Player…

The most common way of working with temporal data in Flash is to use the Date class. It has been around in Actionscript since version one and like its sister…

Now that I have a reliable working Timekeeper I think it’s time to move on to look at how we manage date and time in Actionscript. Back in 2001 I…