New Flash Lite Download on MD Labs

May 9, 2008 at 6:15 am · Filed under AS 1.0, Books, Device Central, Devices, Flash, Mobile

The World Time and Temperature application is now available for download. It’s designed to work with any mobile device that has a screen size of 240w x 320h. Enjoy!

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GetTimeZoneOffset Bug

April 14, 2008 at 6:20 am · Filed under AS 1.0, Device Central, Flash

While testing my time and temperature application, I’ve discovered a bug related to time zone offset. The left half of the image above is a screen shot from Device Central and it’s showing the correct offset value in minutes (offset is the difference between local time and Greenwich Mean Time or GMT).

The screen shot at right was taken from my Nokia N73 using the same Flash Lite test file. The problem is that my N73 shows the offset as -60. This also throws off the rest of my display times because their calculation is based on the offset value.

I could ignore what I see in Device Central and multiply the offset value by -1 in code to reverse the negative and positive offset values. But I wonder if this will work for all devices? If you have any experience with this problem, please feel free to send an email to liz–at–myersdesign–dot–com.

Thank you.

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