[FLEX-24433] DateTimeFormatter - method setStyle() cannot set locale to a DateTimeFormatter instance when the instance is defined in ActionScript

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Previous
• Fix Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Previous
• Component/s: Spark: Formatters
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Browser: Internet Explorer 8.x; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 12/Jul/10 20:24
• Updated: 01/Apr/11 17:22
• Resolved: 19/Jul/10 15:30

Description

Steps to reproduce:
1.Define a DateTimeFormatter in ActionSctipt with locale 'zh-CN':
public var dtf:spark.formatters.DateTimeFormatter = new spark.formatters.DateTimeFormatter('zh-CN');
2.Set locale to 'ru-RU' by calling dtf.setStyle('locale','ru-RU');
3.Get weekday names by calling trace(dtf.getWeekdayNames());
4.Verify whether the returned weekday names are in Russian

Actual Results:
The return value of getWeekdayNames() are in Chinese:
星期日,星期一,星期二,星期三,星期四,星期五,星期六

Expected Results:
The return value of getWeekdayNames() are in Russian:
воскресенье,понедельник,вторник,среда,четверг,пятница,суббота

Attachment: sample code to repro this bug