Defect constructing date from string

I've found that ActionScript will correctly format a date
given a string like ''1962-06-14'', but it cannot construct a Date
object from the same string. This seems like a defect in the Date
class.



For example:



var df:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter();

df.formatString = ''MM/DD/YYYY'';

trace( df.format(''1962-06-14'') ); %26gt;%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;
06/14/1962



var d:Date = new Date(''1962-06-14'');

trace( d ); %26gt;%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;%26gt; Invalid Date



This is important because I'm getting my data from a Rails
application. The default format Rails uses when putting date values
into XML is ''yyyy-mm-dd''.Defect constructing date from string
No you can't create a date like this.

You must convert it by using the split method of String
object into an array then you create your date like the following
example

return new Date(arr[0], arr[1], arr[2]);