Time API for AS3.0?

[dannymurong]

Hi all,

Do you guys come across any Time API (similar to Google or Yahoo! Weather API) which allows me to get the current time of countries (with daylight saving)?

Cheers

[shunjie]

Check out this world time engine.

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2008/02 ... orld-time/

I am not sure if they support flash as I cannot find any crossdomain.xml file on the server. Maybe can bug them to put up one for you if you purchase their api

[intosite]

Check out this world time engine.

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2008/02 ... orld-time/

I am not sure if they support flash as I cannot find any crossdomain.xml file on the server. Maybe can bug them to put up one for you if you purchase their api

erm.. actually i learnt this trick/hack from my friend.
needs php.. you then load this php file with in the same domain of your flash app.
think it's only good for small xmls or text files.. not for images cause your server will generate a temp file and save it.. if not used carefully, the server will keep generating a file for every request and eventually use up all your hosting space.

here's wat i used it with.
http://labs.djsonny.info/calendar/

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<?php
$site_url = 'http://www.website.com/fileYouWantToLoad.xml?variables=ifAny';
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $site_url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);

ob_start();
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$file_contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

echo $file_contents;
?>


[ArulPrasad]

This post's been pretty old, but i thought it makes sense to add this link in here:

There is a google app engine project that gives u precisely what you are looking for: http://json-time.appspot.com/

Read abt this one, from Aral Balkan's blog post here: http://aralbalkan.com/1410

Of course if you are using this in Actionscript, u'll have to parse the JSON response. There is a JSON parser in as3corelib (http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/), just in case you dint know.

Cheers,
Arul Prasad.