MySQL and dates

Question

When you extract xml from a MySQL database you get the
following format for a date: 2006-08-29T21:01:07.0000000-07:00
I have managed to get flex to connect to the XML file,
display all the items in the XML file, to include the above
mentioned date. But the problem comes in formatting that date.
Obviously I don't want the user staring at that mess but all my
feeble attempts to format it in Flex haven't produced any results.
I tried to tackle the whole thing but all that did is turn the
jumbled mess into an empty column so I tried to go simple and just
pull the year (as shown below) and I still get nothing in that
column. Does anyone have any ideas on how to approach this?
<mx:DateFormatter id="DateDisplay" formatString="YYYY"
/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Last Access"
dataField="{DateDisplay.format(users_request.lastResult.last_access)}"
sortDescending="true"/>

Answer 1

alright so using your idea i have the following:
<mx:DataGridColumn dataField="last _access"
headerText="Last Access">
<mx:itemRenderer>
<mx:Component>
<mx:VBox>
<mx:DateFormatter id="dateFormatter"
formatString="YYYY"/>
<mx:Text
text="{dateFormatter.format(users_request.lastResult.last_access)}"/>
</mx:VBox>
</mx:Component>
</mx:itemRenderer>
</mx:DataGridColumn>
but now I am getting the following error message:
Severity Description Resource In Folder Location Creation
Time Id
2 1120: Access of undefined property users_request.
Statistics.mxml Statistics line 24 September 1, 2006 1:41:33 PM 15
so apparently it won't let me access that data in the same
manner as I did in my first example. So i thought maybe if I gave
the datagrid an id and then accessed it via that I might have
better results:
<mx:DataGrid id="mygrid" .....\>
<mx:Text
text="{dateFormatter.format(mygrid.last_access)}"/>
Severity Description Resource In Folder Location Creation
Time Id
2 1120: Access of undefined property mygrid. Statistics.mxml
Statistics line 24 September 1, 2006 1:34:54 PM 14
But I get a similiar error message as before. Any idea what
I'm missing?