MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 2.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference page 325

Mac OS X - the Date object automatically adjusts its output for daylight saving time. The
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time zone information database in Mac OS X is used to determine whether any date or
time in the present or past should have a daylight saving time bias applied.
Mac OS 9 - the operating system provides only enough information to determine whether
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the current date and time should have a daylight saving time bias applied. Accordingly, the
date object assumes that the current daylight saving time bias applies to all dates and times
in the past or future.
Flash Player 5 handles daylight saving time on the following operating systems as follows:
Windows - the U.S. rules for daylight saving time are always applied, which leads to
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incorrect transitions in Europe and other areas that employ daylight saving time but have
different transition times than the U.S. Flash correctly detects whether daylight saving
time is used in the current locale.
To call the methods of the Date class, you must first create a Date object using the constructor
for the Date class, described later in this section.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Property summary
Properties inherited from class Object
constructor (Object.constructor
property), prototype (Object.prototype
(Object.__resolve property)
Constructor summary
Signature
Date([yearOrTimevalue:Number],
[month:Number], [date:Number],
[hour:Number], [minute:Number],
[second:Number],
[millisecond:Number])
property), __proto__ (Object.__proto__
property),
Description
Constructs a new Date object that holds the specified
date and time.
__resolve
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