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Month Array in JavaScript Not Pretty

How can i make it nicer? var month = new Array(); month['01']='Jan'; month['02']='Feb'; month['03']='Mar'; etc. Itd be nice to do it like: var months = new Array(['01','Jan'],['02','Feb'],['03','Mar']); For example. anyway like that to simplify it? ...

how do I get the sitecore item Published Date?

Ho do I get the published date of a sitecore item? There are fields like '__created' and '__updated' but couldn't find anything for published date. I tried the following: Sitecore.Context.Item.Publishing.PublishDate But this only gives me date if I explicitly set it from the Content Editor. Basically I just want to print out the date ...

NULL value from NSDateFormatter from XML

Hi guys, This was working fine before compiling with iOS4.0 and I can't figure out what's wrong. Here's the problem. I send my app scores from my database with a date/time on it. My goal is to store that in CoreData. When I use the code below I get a null value for the date. Code: NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatt...

free calendar with timestamp

I am working on form and I am looking for a free calendar/date/timestamp app that i can include in my form. basically, in the input text, i want users to click on the calendar icon and pick a date and a time stamp. that value should populate in the input text. my next question is, in my mysql db, i am calling this field as "datetime", s...

JDBC ResultSet getDate losing precision

I am losing precision in my ResultSet.getDate(x) calls. Basically: rs = ps.executeQuery(); rs.getDate("MODIFIED"); is returning dates truncated to the day where MODIFIED is an Oracle TIMESTAMP field of default precision. I think there may be some JDBC tweak I'm missing; usually TIMESTAMP is compatible with DATE, but I'm hoping I don...

DateTime formatting Rails

Hi I have "Date.today + 2.days" I need to format it using .strftime, but with the "+2.days" it doesn't recognize that method.Any ideas? ...

What's the best way to detect date formats in user submitted data?

I'm reading csv data uploaded by users in my Ruby on Rails app. When a user specifies that a particular column has dates(or times), I want to be able to automatically detect the format. This means it can be in American or British formats (any of dd/mm/yy, mm/dd/yy, yyyy-mm-dd, 12 Feb 2010, etc etc) I have tried parsedate in Ruby but i...

How to calculate date range for week and month in javascript?

Hello there, Can someone guide me on date range in JavaScript ? I want to calculate one week and month date range from current(today's) date i.e if today is 18th july 2010, range for week should be 11/07/2010 - 8/07/2010 and for month it should be 01/07/2010 - 18/07/2010. Thanks for your guidance in advance. ~Bharat ...

Extracting date from a string in Python

How can I extract the date from a string like "monkey 2010-07-10 love banana"? Thanks! ...

Date conversion

How to convert the date displayed 7/19/2010 12:00:00 AM to July/Sunday/2010??? ...

get week of month using javascript / jquery

How can i get the week number of month using javascript / jquery? For ex.: First Week: 5th July, 2010. / Week Number = First monday Previous Week: 12th July, 2010. / Week Number = Second monday Current Date: 19th July, 2010. / Week Number = Third Monday Next week: 26th July, 2010. / Week Number = Last monday ...

fast auto-guessing of date strings

For a huge number of huge csv files (100M lines+) from different sources I need a fast snippet or library to auto-guess the date format and convert it to broken-down time or unix time-stamp. Once successfully guessed the snippet must be able to check subsequent occurrences of the date field for validity because it is likely that the dat...

Does a new Date Object in java contain the current date? Or is it empty?

Hey, Date now = new Date(); if (now.getTime() - leasedDate.getTime() > 21 * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24) throw new TooLate(); leased.remove(x); I'm looking at some code examples and above is a part of it. There's something I don't understand. Does the date object called "now" have the current date and hour in it? Because ...

Setting the system date in Python (on Windows)

There appears to be many packages for getting/formatting the current date, or finding out the date n time intervals from now. But I must be overlooking the existence of a simple method to set the date (like Windows' date.exe) in Python. Surely such a function exists? I've been unable to find anything on Google, the python docs (datetime...

How to "make something" in a specific time and day of the week in java?

I have an application that needs to play some specifics audios(mp3) periodically. Let me give one example: Every Monday at 8:00am -> hello.mp3. How can I do that in Java?? I´m trying using Calendar, JodaTime, but I cant do it. ...

get nth weekday of month in C#

Possible Duplicate: How do I determine if a given date is Nth weekday of the month? How do i get the nth weekday of the month? For ex.: 2nd Monday of "July 2010" = 07/12/2010. Looking for a function like: public DateTime GetNthWeekofMonth(DateTime date, int nthWeek, DayOfWeek dayofWeek) { //return the date of nth week of ...

How to convert MM/DD/YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD?

Hi all, I have a jquery calendar that sets the input value to MM/DD/YYYY How would I convert it so that my database column (date) can accept it correctly? EDIT Gordon was right - his link pointed me to this answer $mysql_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($user_date)); ...

Sql query join nearest date

I have a sqlite query that I'm trying to write. I have two tables: TableA (sales): id sales date TableB (goals): id goal date I'm selecting from TableA like this: SELECT id,sales,date FROM TableA Now to the "tricky" part. I need to join TableB to the query because I need the goal field in TableB for each row in TableA. TableB only co...

How do I check for the first saturday of the month in PHP?

I need to make a simple if statement for a daily cron job to check if today is the first saturday of the month. How would I modify the following code to do that instead of just running on the 1st of every month? if (date("j") == 1) { // run cron here } ...

Is there an open source .NET equivalent to the date.js library?

Just wondering if anyone knows of an open source .Net library that handles dates similarly to the date.js library which allows you to do things like the following. // What date is next thursday? Date.today().next().thursday(); // Add 3 days to Today Date.today().add(3).days(); // Is today Friday? Date.today().is().friday(); // Number...