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PHP's strtotime() in Java?

I'm looking for an easy way to generate a MySQL DATETIME from any type of time input a user may enter. PHP makes it easy with its strtotime() function that can do: strtotime(’2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00′); strtotime(’Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200′); strtotime(’Monday, January 1st’); strtotime(’tomorrow’); strtotime(’-1 week 2 days 4...

iPhone SDK - Morning or afternoon

Hello, Can someone help me out with something. I'm trying to get the current part of the day, am or pm. Is there an easy way of accomplishing this? Thanks. ...

Date time in xslt

Hi i am having the xml file as: <order><Extension Properties><Date>2009-08-04T17:09:04.593+05:30</Date></Extension Properties></Order> and i want the output as Generation Date 040809 I want to do this via xslt.Please help..!! ...

Time validation (and comparing) using Javascript / JQuery

Hi guys, First of all apologise for creating my third Javascript question in as many days - I'm really trying to push myself in this field on this project, and feel my skills are developing at a fairly good rate thanks to my research and your fantastic help on here, particularly redsuqare!! I've got a table where people can enter times...

Encoding a date into an ASCII barcode

I am investigating encoding of date information into a linear barcode that must be as short as possible. One idea we have had is encoding date information rather than using the ASCII characters for the date numerals. The earliest date to be encoded is 01-JAN-2009 Date must be encoded using printable ASCII characters ...

Php clock 2 hours back

So the clock is 18:37 right now in sweden but it prints out 16:37 why is that? $timestamp = time(); date('M d, H:i', $timestamp) What can be wrong? ...

Parsing standard date to GMT

Hey guys, Can someone show me a piece of java code that parses this date: 2009-08-05 INTO THIS GMT DATE: 2009/217:00:00 ==== what i have so far is: java.text.SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd"); java.util.Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(new SimpleTimeZone(0, "GMT")); format.setCal...

Why does a new SimpleDateFormat object contain calendar with the wrong year?

I came upon a strange behavior that has left me curious and without a satisfactory explanation as yet. For simplicity, I've reduced the symptoms I've noticed to the following code: import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.GregorianCalendar; public class CalendarTest { public static void main(String[] args) { Sys...

fuzzy timestamp parsing with Python

hello, Is there a Python module to interpret fuzzy timestamps like the date command in unix: > date -d "2 minutes ago" Tue Aug 11 16:24:05 EST 2009 The closest I have found so far is dateutil.parser, which fails for the above example. thanks ...

Classic Asp Date

Hey, been looking for a while but I can't seem to find any info on how to handle date in classic asp. For now, I need a way to calculate the number of days passed in the current year. I was thinking about a simple function that would take the current date, then make another date with (day = 1, month = 1, year(now)). And finally get the...

how to check for current date and time in Jquery

Just wondering if there was a way to check the current date and time in Jquery. ...

How do I validate a date in YYYY-MM-DD format in Perl?

Related/Possible duplicate: How can I validate dates in Perl? I have created a script where start and end date needs to be given by user while executing the script. The date format entered by user should be in YYYY-MM-DD format only. start_date = $ARGV[0]; end_date = $ARGV[1]; please advise. ...

How to convert Oracle "TIME" to JDBC Time in query?

Oracle doesn't support the TIME datatype, but you can use DATE to store a TIME. My problem: select to_date('2009-06-30', 'YYYY-MM-DD') as "DATE", to_date('16:31:59', 'HH24:MI:SS') as "TIME" from dual yields: DATE TIME 2009-06-30 2009-08-01 when I run it through JDBC (in SQuirrel SQL, in fact). "2009-08-01" isn't a v...

How do you get the "week start date" and "week end date" from week number in SQL Server?

I have a query that counts member's wedding dates in the database... Select Sum(NumberOfBrides) As [Wedding Count], DATEPART( wk, WeddingDate) as [Week Number], DATEPART( year, WeddingDate) as [Year] FROM MemberWeddingDates Group By DATEPART( year, WeddingDate), DATEPART( wk, WeddingDate) Order By Sum(NumberOfBrides) Desc How...

MYSQL: How can I find 'last monday's date'

is there a simpler way than writing: select date_sub(curdate(), interval WEEKDAY(curdate()) day) as LastMonday from dual ...

How to convert an NSTimeInterval into an date with time?

I have an NSTimeInterval value, or more precisely an NSTimeInterval "since reference date". I think that's a value in seconds from 1970 or something like so. Pretty standard in most programming languages, I think. So now I have that ugly value which the user doesn't understand, and I'd like to display a date + time. Is there a useful me...

PHP Multiple Options

What is the easiest way to code in the values in fifteen minute increments? In other words, instead of doing the following: <select> <option value="">12:00 AM</option> <option value="">12:15 AM</option> <option value="">12:30 AM</option> <option value="">12:45 AM</option> ... so on How could I use PHP to take up less space? Thanks!...

how to create custom sections in a tableview based on coredata entities

I'm just starting to learn coredata. In my core data model I have a date stamp (of type NSDate) which includes the date and time (I need this information). Now I would like to organize the Core Data table into sections by days. How can I do this. The only samples I found directly use a core data entity to create the sections, in this ca...

PHP Parse Date String

If I've got a date string: $date = "08/20/2009"; And I want to separate each part of the date: $m = "08"; $d = "20"; $y = "2009"; How would I do so? Is there a special date function I should be using? Or something else? Thanks! ...

Return record with max date

Table – Employee.Status.XREF Client Employee Date 198 Jon Doe 3/1/2009 198 Jon Doe 1/1/2009 Table – Employee.Status.History Client Employee Date Status 198 Jon Doe 5/21/2009 T 198 Jon Doe 3/1/2009 A 198 Jon Doe 1/1/2009 P Only query records in both Employee.Status.History and Employee.Status.XREF where Client, Employe...