Creating date with 'new XDate([date], true)' does not automatically coerce the date as would be expected

[BlazeCell]

When I use the code below:

date = new XDate('2012-09-21');
$dateOutput.text(date.toString('yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss'));

I get an output of:

2012-09-21 00:00:00

which is what I expect.

However, when I alter the code to:

date = new XDate('2012-09-21', true);
$dateOutput.text(date.toString('yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss'));

I get an output of:

2012-09-21 07:00:00

Which not what I'm expecting. I expect that if I'm creating a date in UTC mode, that whatever value I use to create my date will be used to create the date in UTC mode; not create the date and then convert that date to UTC mode.

I found the problem code at line 119 inside xdate.dev.js. I changed the line from:

setUTCMode(xdate, utcMode);

to

setUTCMode(xdate, utcMode, true);

and now I get the expected behavior.

So now, with the change, the following code:

date = new XDate('2012-09-21', true);
$dateOutput.text(date.toString('yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss'));

results in an output of:

2012-09-21 00:00:00

If you need me to, I'll make a pull request, but I figured it was a pretty minor change so I'm just posting it here for now.

[BlazeCell]

Update: Upon further fiddling with this change, I've found additional pieces that weren't behaving as expected. More changes will need to be made for this to work properly.

[arshaw]

This issue is from a while ago, sorry about that. I looked into your issue, and everything's working fine on my end. The test added in this commit is passing: 919d3a9e872a301c9db156995da506277a698377

Is is possible you were misinterpreting your debug output?