You’re using Flex 3 and want to compare two dates. The format of the dates is string something like “2009 May 05”. The question is …

What’s the best way to compare them

Well if you’ve the dates as strings and you can easily conver them to something like unix timestamps. If they are a Date object you can try lik so:

date1 = new Date(‘2009’);

date2 = new Date(‘1990’);

if (date1.setTime() < date2.setTime())