Date & Time formatting in Flex

What you need to know?
1. The format

Pattern	Example
Year
YY	09 (Year Number Short)
YYY	2009 (Year Number Full)
YYYY	02009 (I have no clue why you would need this)
Month
M	7 (Month Number Short)
MM	07 (Month Number Full)
MMM	Jul (Month Name Short)
MMMM	July (Month Name Full)
Day
D	4 (Day Number Short)
DD	04 (Day Number Full)
Day Name
E	1 (Day Number Short)
EE	01 (Day Number Full)
EEE	Mon (Day Name Short)
EEEE	Monday (Day Name Full)
A	AM/PM
J	Hour in day (0-23)
H	Hour in day (1-24)
K	Hour in AM/PM (0-11)
L	Hour in AM/PM(1-12)
N	3 (Minutes)
NN	03 (Minutes)
SS	30 (Seconds)

 2. How to format
     i. using date formatter => <mx:DateFormatter id="formatDateTime" formatString="MM/DD/YY" />
    ii. calling date formatter => formatDateTime.format(YourDate);

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Catch Exception XmlConfigReader.readFileColl: Content is not allowed in prolog.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog.
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