DateTimeFormatter.format() and date stored as string

Question

Greetings,
I need to display some data in a spark data grid and would like to format a date from that data with a labelFunction calling a DateTimeFormatter's format function.
The date is stored in my ArrayCollection in the following format '2004-05-03 01:03:52.0'
my formatter is as follows
<s:DateTimeFormatter id="dateFormatter" dateTimePattern="YYYY-MM-DD" />
I would like my label function to return something like
return "Date: " + dateFormatter.format( item[column.dataField]); // where the item[column.dataField] = "2004-05-03 01:03:52.0"
The date is coming up blank. I'm thinking I need to convert the string "2004-05-03 01:03:52.0" to a Date object first, then pass that into the format() call.
Is that the way to go? If so, what's the best way to handle that?
Thanks

Answer 1

Thank you Sumesh, but the problem was with getting the string converted to a date. I found a solution on
http://polygeek.com/4137_actionscript3_batbelttime-utilities
* Convert an MySQL Timestamp to an Actionscript Date
* Thanks to Pascal Brewing [email protected] for the beautiful simplicity.
public static function convertMySQLTimeStampToASDate( time:String ):Date{
var pattern:RegExp = /[: -]/g;
time = time.replace( pattern, ',' );
var timeArray:Array = time.split( ',' );
var date:Date = new Date( timeArray[0], timeArray[1]-1, timeArray[2],
timeArray[3], timeArray[4], timeArray[5] );
return date as Date;
I pass in my string and it gets converted to a Date. I then pass the Date to the DateTimeFormatter.format() and everything works as expected.
Thanks