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How do I give separate classes to the styling of the month and year in the Wordpress Date function?

I'm in wordpress, trying to format the date output. This is the code I'm using at present: <div class="date"><?php the_date('M, Y'); ?></div> It's output looks like this: MAY, 2010 What I want to do is have the date display like this (The month on top of the year): MAY 2010 I'm just not familiar enough with PHP to get things w...

Ruby-Proper Usage of the Date.step() method

I have been trying to use the step() method on Date object to retrieve the previous 2 dates from the current date as follows: date_d.step(2, step=-2){|d| puts d } where 2 is the limit and step is the number of steps backward or forward. I have done this in accordance with the Documentation given here: Date.step() Thi...

Check date format before parsing

Hello! I am parsing several documments with the field Duration. But in the differents files, it is in differnt formats, ex: "Duration": "00:43" "Duration": "113.046" "Duration": "21.55 s" I want to parse all of them to the format "Duration": "113.046", how could I check before any parsing in wich format it is?? Some conditions be...

Java DateFormat.SHORT with full year

Hi. Is there any way to make DateFormat format a date with a full year (eg. 12/12/2010), when using DateFormat.SHORT as the pattern? I have to format dates in both en_US and da_DK. I know I could use DateFormat.MEDIUM, but the date have to be formatted using only numbers and separators, and DateFormat.MEDIUM for en_US produces something...

find ALL methods of getting current date/time in VB.net

I have a 500K+ lines vb.net app, written by 10+ different devs over the past 5 years. Many times it gets the system time and/or date and relies on it. Now I have to re-run real cases thru the program for regression testing purposes, and it screws up cases where the date/time matter. My fix is easy, just replace all the areas in the pro...

Inserting a Date into Database

I'm trying to retrieve user data form a form and save the data into a database. I'm trying to retrieve the following data: 1) First Name 2) Last Name 3) Major 4) Year SQL syntax: CREATE TABLE `tblStudents` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `first_name` varchar(30) NOT NULL, `last_name` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `major` varc...

How convert a date from dd-mm-yy to mm-dd-yy

Hi How convert a date from dd-mm-yy to mm-dd-yy below is my code <? $date= date('d-m-y'); echo date('m-d-Y',strtotime($date)); ?> but the result is : 09-10-2001 i need 09-01-2010 ...

calculate number of days left in an year from specific date using mysql

Hi, How to calculate the number of difference between a specific date to the current year last date. Consider I would like to show date difference between 2009-09-01 to current year last date(2010-12-31) ...

Django: Use of DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT in settings.py?

I would like to globally (through my entire site, admin and front-end) adjust the way dates and time are displayed to my likings, but I cannot figure out what is going on with the DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT and TIME_FORMAT variables in settings.py. In this question it says that the settings are ignored. The question is over a year old...

How to check for valid Date in yyyyMM format

I have an internal business process that my finance dept runs. To kick it off they input a Date in the format of yyyyMM or 201009. I want to check for a valid date from that string but so far I got nothing. I am currently exploring breaking the string up, taking the first 4 and checking that they are between 1990 and 2050(as example) ...

Date javascript

Hi, I am trying to understand more about the Date object in javascript. I thought that when you call valueOf(), you get the amount of milliseconds since january 1, 1970. So what I would expect is that the following should return exactly zero; alert((new Date(1970, 1, 1).valueOf() )/ ( 86400 * 1000)); but it does not, it returns 30.95...

Rails "moments ago" instead of created date?

Hi Everyone, Currently I have the following in my helper: def created_today k if k.created_at.to_date == Date.today then content_tag(:span, 'Today', :class => "todayhighlight") else k.created_at.to_s(:kasecreated) end end What I would like to do is replace TODAY with MOMENTS AGO if the created_at time is within th...

Comparing dates in Oracle using the decode function

I need to compare two dates using the Oracle decode function to see if one is <= then the other. I found this article - http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/decode.php Which states (at the bottom) that the below decode function will return date2 if date1 > date2 : decode((date1 - date2) - abs(date1 - date2), 0, date2, date1) ...

Bash script - How to take todays date and count back monthly for a year

Hi, I've made a bash script executing a PHP file: #!/bin/bash php upgrade_attendance.php refresh_daily_attendance 2010-10-01 2010-11-01 php upgrade_attendance.php refresh_daily_attendance 2010-09-01 2010-10-01 php upgrade_attendance.php refresh_daily_attendance 2010-08-01 2010-09-01 php upgrade_attendance.php refresh_daily_attendance ...

Get next/previous ISO week and year in PHP

I need a function that takes an ISO week and an ISO year as parameter and returns the next ISO week and year (and a function that returns the previous ISO week/year). Is there an existing function that I could use for that in PHP? ...

Simpledateformat parse issue

I'm parsing a date which is in format EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z. One of the sample values is Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:03:10 -0700. This is the parsing code: SimpleDateFormat FORMATTER = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"); Date date = FORMATTER.parse(dateString); This works absolutely fine if Phone Language is English bu...

Registering a DateFormatProvider in Java

Is there a way to have my DateFormatProvider take precedence over the existing locales in Java? I have to do some custom formatting for the locale da_DK, and I would like to get these DateFormats by simply using DateFormat.getDateInstance(int, Locale). But it seems that if a Locale already exists in Java, it doesn't care that i register...

How to return a Date value from JSON to Google Visualization API

is there a way to retrieve date value from JSON in Google Visualization API? Here is the snipplet for playground please copy the code below into it When you run the code you won't have anything in result. you should remove the quotes from the date value I marked with comment in order to retrieve result. function drawVisualization() { ...

Grouping by date, return row even if no records found

I have a query that groups all entries from a table and groups them by the datetime column. This is all working great: SELECT SUM( `value` ) AS `sum` , DATE(`datetime`) AS `dt`` FROM `entry` WHERE entryid = 85 AND DATETIME BETWEEN '2010-01-01' AND '2010-03-01' GROUP BY `dt` ORDER BY `datetime` The problem is, I need it to return...

How do I change the records being displayed on the page with buttons on the page (RoR)

I have a rails app that shows statistics based on an employee's daily production. currently my page shows ALL records. I know how to show various different combinations such as records made between two dates etc... but what I really would like to do is make it so that single page (say the index page) has 3 controls that allow for it to...