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Grouping items from mysql by the day they were posted

So, I'm having a problem building a feed-style list of posts efficiently using PHP and Mysql. I want to output the posts organized and grouped by the day they were posted, showing the date as a header. For example: February 9th ----------- Posts that were posted on Feb 9th Feb 8th ----------------- Posts that were posted on the 8th ...

Date validation

Has someone validated date of this format Feb 9, 2010 12:07 PM in javascript previously.There is a problem with javascript Date object its accepting Feb 9,2010 00:07 PM as a valid date. ...

How to sort the row contents on table cell by using date

Hi i am new to iphone application development.i am developing RSS feed Reader it has number of different RSS feeds. In my application (XML parsing), i want to display the content of the row on cell for particular date and with their corresponding title, description (in my application, i am using three labels for displaying title, da...

Creating recurring dates in PHP based on current date, and boolean for done or not

Ello, I am struggling with some date troubles here in PHP/MySql. I have a form that offers the recurrence of a payment yearly,quarterly,monthly,bi-weekly,or weekly and I need to be able to track when payments are made. So for example, if something is added on Monday March 8th (that's the date it is being entered), recurring Weekly on T...

Java DateFormat and SimpleDateFormat returning a date that is incorrect

Today is Tuesday, February 9, 2010 and when I print the date I get the wrong date: SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"); Date today = formatter.parse(String.format("%04d-%02d-%02d", Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR), Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.MONTH), Calendar.getInsta...

What's up with this date???

Why between those dates i get 5,9.... and if i use another year i get 6 ???? It only happens with march and 2008... why is there an hour difference ??? <?php $from = '2008-03-04'; $to = '2008-03-10'; echo datediff($from,$to); $from = '2010-03-04'; $to = '2010-03-10'; echo datediff($from,$to); function datediff($from,$to) { ...

can 2 timezone be for 1 city?

I want to know if there can be 2 or more GMT timezones for one city or state. I know there can be more then one GMT timezone for a country, but not sure if it's for state and city too. Share your knowledge please. ...

PHP week of year problem?

Hi, i tried this: echo date('W'); It gives me "06" (without quotes), but I only want 6, instead of 06. Is there a way to get the week of year in single character if the week is less than 10. I have couple of ways to deal with this, like: Check if week is less than 10, then use substring. etc.. Is there any more convenient way? ...

XSLT conversion of string representation of date (01 Jan 00) into xs:date

Hello, I'm stuck with a string conversion to xs:date. I would really appreciate any help and tips! I have a string that represents date in the format of "01 Jan 00", which I need to convert to xs:date, so that I can manipulate it further. Is there a function or something already there so that I can convert my so ever difficult string ...

Ant: How can I subtract two properties (containing timestamps)?

Hi, I'm working on an ant script. In this particular part, I need to get the current month, as well as the prior month. I was thinking something similar to <tstamp> <format property="thismonth" pattern="MMyy"/> <!-- 0210 by february 2010--> </tstamp> <!--I'd like to get 0110 (january 2010) here, but can't imagine how--> <property n...

Technique to compute next day's date from a date supplied via an arg?

Hi All, I'm having some trouble figuring this out. I have a script that checks a log file that is generated the day after the date specified by the script call. This is because the files fetched for the specified day's data won't be fetched until the day after. And when that cron runs in the morning, the log file will have a timestamp...

Changing between images based on date

So I have a website which has three spaces for pictures: Space A, Space B, and Space C. In Space A, I have 20 images (Images A1-A20) which I would like to rotate daily. In Space B, I have 20 images (Images B1-B20) which I would like to change every 13 days. In Space C, I have 20 images (Images C1-C20) which I would like to change every...

Start and end date on multiple dates range

Hi my problem is somewhat special or maybe not. However the problem is that I parse range of dates in one array, where I need to find start date and end date where ever it may occur in ranges. I do not know did I explain this well but if you need more info, please let me know. e.g. [2010-7-11,2010-7-12,2010-7-13, 2010-9-01, 2010-9-02,.....

Converting human readable date to java date object

Here is my problem - I need to parse a string and find whether it contains a date. Examples of strings: "Tomorrow 2AM" "16 February 2010 16:00" "Today 16:00" Do you know of any java library which addresses human readable dates conversion? thanks in advance! ...

how to get the same day of next month of a given day in python using datetime

i know using datetime.timedelta i can get the date of some days away form given date daysafter = datetime.date.today() + datetime.timedelta(days=5) but seems no datetime.timedelta(months=1) !Thanks for any help! ...

Sorting an arraylist of objects by date using SS::MM::HH MM/DD/YY/ format

Hi, I have an arraylist of objects, each containing a unique date in the following format YEAR-DAY-MONTH HOUR:MINUTE:SECOND (example: 2010-02-10 23:32:14) I'm trying to compare each object in the array list (there are a few thousand) with a incrementing timer class I created to check if both times match. It seems like the easiest wa...

iPhone: Displaying Date in a Label and String Manipulation

In order to learn some basics I've undertaken creating an app that displays two quotes a day. I'm having trouble figuring out how to work with the current date, which will be pretty necessary if I'm going to get this thing running. My current plan is to name my .txt files with the quotes by day, and then get my filePath string to con...

Parse date and format it using python?

Hi, I want to parse a date and change the format using python. Date has the format like 'Mon Feb 15 2010' and i want to change the format into '15/02/2010'. Any one can help me. Thanks in advance. Nimmy ...

How can I search for any day in a month?

I'm doing a search through a database to find articles written within a certain month: between '1 '.$month.' '.$year and '31 '.$month.' '.$year Is this method ok even if some months (like February) only have 28 days? In other words, do I have to dynamically find the number of days in the month, or not? ...

WordPress: Create a Dynamic Filter Showing Posts of Numeric Value

Working in WordPress here. As you may know, all of the typical solutions for displaying upcoming events in WordPress are awful, so I'm accomplishing it with simple custom fields. Each event the user will enter they will enter a Numeric date "YYYYMMDD". What I need to find out is how to code in PHP for the script to first get php:the...