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Why does GregorianCalendar.getInstance contain a calsys and cdate of type Julian Calendar

I tried to do set date value to a PreparedStatement with default value but the value is sometimes returned as a JulianValue. For example (Assume spanBegin and spanEnd are null) Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(); if (spanBegin == null) { cal.set(0000, Calendar.JANUARY, 1); spanBegin = cal.getTime(); } if (spanEnd == null) {...

SQL reporting services report not showing date in correct format

Hi, i have built a reporting services report off SQL server 2005 and am having trouble getting the date to format correctly in a stand-alone textbox. The code i am using is as follows: ="Date: " & FormatDateTime(Parameters!date.Value, 2)) -- According to MSDN it should work off my systems culture when set to '2' however it is not. C...

Check date of a file in unix

In my unix shell script, I have a for loop and looping thru the files in a directory, I want to check the modified date of a file is greater than some number of days, say 10 days and do some processing. Any help in this regards is highly appreciated. ...

Date picker troubleshooting

I am trying to fill an online form but the date pickers are not functioning properly. Several will not open and others will open but when I submit the form, it will not be sent claiming that some of the fields are not filled when I have used a date picker to fill them. The website belongs to someone else and I am only trying to fill in t...

I want to show records from a table having a date column from sqldatabase in dates order. How should I?

I want to show records from a table having a date column from sqldatabase in dates order. How should I? ...

SQL ORDER BY date problem

Can you please help me in solving this problem. I am trying to order the results of an SQL query by date, but I'm not getting the results I need. The query I'm using is: SELECT date FROM tbemp ORDER BY date ASC Results are: 01/02/2009 03/01/2009 04/06/2009 05/03/2009 06/12/2008 07/02/2009 Results should be: 06/12/2008 03/01/2009 ...

Entering Dates into mysql database using sql INSERT

A better suggestion on how to approach this then what I have done so far would be appreciated. Right now the dates have to be entered in the correct format year-month-day. Is there a way to automate this task more, with drop downs, just not sure how you would combine the information from the drop downs to submit to one field with my sql ...

Get every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in a given time frame

What is an easy way to get every Friday, Saturday and Sunday betwee two dates, without using the datetime object of PHP5.0. Because of the speed I don't want to traverse every date between 1/1 and 31/12. (per page I have to calculate it at least 50 times :) as part of a result view.) ...

Clear DateField in Flex 3

there's no way to clear a date after it has been inserted! I had to add an ugly button near it to clear it programmatically... Do you have a nicer solution? ...

Python: user friendly time format

Python: I need to show file modification times in "1 day ago", "two hours ago", format. Is there something ready to do that? It should be in english ...

Oracle problems with DATEs

Hi Folks, iam confused. Iam trying to read an Value from an oracle table, format: timestamp(6). In my PHP Scripts im setting the Dateformat with: $db->query('ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = "DD-MM-RR"'); On 2 Machines im recieving this string as value (wich is correct for me): ["TIME_INSERT"] => string(24) "05.10.07 14:20:05,00...

gmt or without gmt

this might be stupid question, but ill ask anyway. do i really need to implement gmt on site to get proper timestamp on a post? well im building a site like twitter. my feeds are working fine and showing me the time i need, like it shows "posted 11 minutes, posted yesterday, posted 5 days ago.. " just like this site, so i was thinking ...

Calculating the Difference Between Two Java Date Instances

I'm using Java's java.util.date class in Scala and want to compare a date object and the current time. I know I can calculate the delta by using getTime(): (new java.util.Date()).getTime() - oldDate.getTime() However, this just leaves me with a Long representing milliseconds. Is there any simpler, nicer way to get a time delta? ...

How Many Days have occured during a Given Timespan

If we have date range such As: 1st October 2009 - 20th October 2009 Can we calculate how many Mondays have occured during The answer to this would be (3) M T W T F S S *1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 *20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Can we do this...

Deselect previous date in jquery date picker

I want to validate start date and end date.For this purpose in jquery datepicker, i want to deselect or disable the previous date from the selected start date.Any body knows please help me ...

Triggering workflow automatically by a particular date

Hi, I am new to Sharepoint. I have a list where the date is given in a column and on that particular date the workflow must automatically trigger. I went to sharepoint designer but couldn't set the value to date. How do I trigger a workflow automatically by a particular date?? Please help. I would really appreciate your help. Than...

Sorting nearest date with MySQL

I have a simple task list which contains amongst others a title field and a deadline field. Some tasks got deadlines, other don't. Deadlines are simply stored with a MySQL date type. But the tough part (for me anyway) is to sort the tasks in the correct order: Ascending deadlines The rest (maybe by ID, but not important) Current que...

Date as simple text (e.g. Today, Yesterday, 1 Week Ago) in .Net

Hi, Does anyone have a simple function to hand for converting a date to a simple string (using .Net)? E.g. 14-Oct-09 would read "Today", 13-Oct-09 would read "Yesterday" and 7-Oct-09 would read "1 Week Ago" etc... Cheers, Tim ...

ms access date and time. Time must be 7:00 AM and user must not edit time.

I have a form where users input information for a test run on a particular date. This creates a table that i then link with another table based on the date and an ID. In this other table (filled by a form created by someone else) all of the times are 7:00 AM. Whoever created the form for that table did what I'm now asking about; since...

Date conversion from db to display

I'm reading a datetime field from mysql db. I'd like to convert it in PHP: from: 2009-05-23 14:46:23 to 05/23/2009 02:46 pm Notice the am/pm conversion. Thanks in advance.. ...