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iso 8601 to as3 date object

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probably not the best way but easy enough

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  1. //trace(new Date("2010/05/03T14:14Z")); ----> this will error 'invalid date'
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  3. var isoDate = "2010-05-03T14:14Z";
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  5. //this will remove the T and Z
  6. var date = isoDate.replace(/[A-Z]/gi," ");
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  8. //this will replace the hypens with forward slashes
  9. date = date.replace(/\-/gi, "/");
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  11. //this casts the string to date and creates the correct date object
  12. trace(new Date(date));

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