[FLEX-21609] Make the Date.parse locale aware.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Previous
• Component/s: Formatters, i18n : Formatter Support, mx: DateField, Validators
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 23/Oct/09 03:07
• Updated: 20/Apr/13 03:39
• Resolved: 20/Apr/13 03:28

Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Set the compiler locale to a non-english one (I used it_IT)
2. Add a DateField
3. Try to parse the date provided by DateField.text or a date hardcoded in a string with dd/mm/yyyy formatting.

This issue is somewhat related (and should be linked) to SDK-23683.

Actual Results:
I tried 4 different parsing methods and I got 4 different results, as in the project attached.

Expected Results:
I expect that parsing a date without specifying a formatter should try parsing the date with the default formatter for the current locale.

Workaround (if any):
Provide the explicit formatter for the current locale for each date parsed, using only the DateField parser. But the formatter provided should be with english convenctions (DD and YYYY for days and years) and not the localized version of the formatter.