In a previous example, “Parsing ISO dates with Flex and ActionScript”, we saw how to parse ISO formatted dates (2008-01-25T06:14:23Z) and convert them into an ActionScript 3.0 Date object.
The following example shows how you can convert a Java formatted date (Wed Jul 22 14:29:30 PST 2009) and convert the timezone into an ActionScript 3.0 friendly format (UTC-0700) so you can use the static Date.parse() method to convert them into an ActionScript 3.0 Date object.
Full code after the jump.