Date compare from XML

[dallasweb]

Hello,

Is the an obvious way to do this....cuz I'm banging my head on the wall here.

I have a XML doc that has a date-time value. I want to compare that date against now. If XML date is in the future, proceed to next frame kinda thing. What format does a date-time have to be in order to convert it to a date object in Flash?

When I do:
myDate = new Date();
I get something like this: Thu Mar 4 21:40:29 GMT-0500 2004

How can I compare that to my time stamp coming from XML? Cuz when I try to convert a string to a Date I get "Invalid Date"

I tried this but no luck:

From the XML doc:
2004,04,28,12,47,52,00

AS code:
alertDate = alert_xml.firstChild.childNodes[0].firstChild.childNodes[0];
tempS = new String(alertDate);
tempD = new Date(tempS);

returns "Invalid Date"


BUT.....This works:
tempD = new Date(2004,04,28,12,47,52,00);
returns: Fri May 28 12:47:52 GMT-0400 2004

How come I can't (haven't figure'd out yet) use my XML value and convert it to a date?

Thanks and bows in advance!

Dman