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regex for textual dates? (aka source code for php's strtotime )

I'm working on the search box for an events website. I've been recording the searches people make and alot of people are entering a {date}+{keyword} combo. example searches: jazz 5th november dj shadow tonight 2nd october live music so I need to write/find a regex that can match textual dates from within a longer string. I'm thinkin...

How do I get a date or datetime out of an SQLite3 row?

There is no function as sqlite3_column_date which I need: int i = 0; for (NSString *key in [self valuesWithTypes]) { id value; if ([[[self valuesWithTypes] objectForKey:key] isKindOfClass:[NSString class]]) { value = [[NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char *)sqlite3_column_text(statement, i)] autorelease]; } else if ([[[self v...

Don't understand the date format in mysql like 1286066935 - UserCake

Hello People, I'am using UserCake for UserManagement - in the table userCake_Users there is a column "LastSignIn" but the value is in this format: 1286066935 with this function I get the right Date public function updateLastSignIn() { global $db,$db_table_prefix; $sql = "UPDATE ".$db_table_prefix."Users SET ...

Recognise an arbitrary date string

I need to be able to recognise date strings. It doesn't matter if I can not distinguish between month and date (e.g. 12/12/10), I just need to classify the string as being a date, rather than converting it to a Date object. So, this is really a classification rather than parsing problem. I will have pieces of text such as: "bla bl...

Access 2007 Textbox Date Formatting

I converted an older Access app to 2007, and now the date formatting in editable textboxes is not working. The format I'm using is mm/dd/yy, but the date is displaying with a 4-digit year. I've tried other formats just for testing, eg mmm/d/yy - they display correctly except for the year which insists on being 4 digits. This appears to...

Rails select_date form name

As much as I love rails, I've always hated dealing with dates in an html form...especially when the date isn't an object's property. The select_date helper is nice, but it always generates this: <select name="date[year]" id="date_year"> <select name="date[month]" id="date_month"> <select name="date[day]" id="date_day"> And I can't fi...

How to calculate "time ago" in Java?

In Ruby on Rails, there is a feature that allows you to take any Date and print out how "long ago" it was. For example: 8 minutes ago 8 hours ago 8 days ago 8 months ago 8 years ago Is there an easy way to do this in Java? ...

Convert a week number into a Month

Hi, How to convert a week number to a month ? For example, 162 weeks = 37,26 Month (so 37 Months if we around the number). Have you an idea ? ...

Update date + one year in mysql

Hi, When I want setting numerical value +1 in mysql table, I use e.g.: UPDATE table SET number=number+1 WHEN ... How can I set date + one year? Thanks ...

Difference between dates

Possible Duplicates: Difference between dates How to calculate the date difference between 2 dates using php So, I have two dates. For instance, 2010-09-24 and 2010-09-25. I want to check if between those two dates the difference is 1 day. I don't need to get a value of 86400 which means one day in seconds. Don't forget ...

How to send date as a parameter to the request in Ksoap2 to consume .Net web service

I am using KSoap2 for consume web service in my application. I need to send date as parameter in the request. Can anybody know how to send date as a parameter and send the request and please give the sample code for it. Does Ksoap2 support date format? Thanks ...

PHP MySQL Date diff

I have the field datetime with DATETIME type in MySQL. In PHP script I set date begin and date end like this: 11/12/1999 and 11/12/2001. In my table datetime saved in the next format: 11.11.1888 00:00:00. How can I compare these dates? Thanks. ...

Stopping Excel Date Parsing

I've written a script to export product data from a cscart database to a CSV file. It works perfectly, however when opened in MS Excel, it parses things such as "12-14" as dates, which shows "Dec 14". I read http://excel.tips.net/Pages/T003228_Stopping_Date_Parsing_when_Opening_a_CSV_File.html but the client will not be willing to do th...

Excel - Sum column by date

I have a workbook with two spreadsheets. One is 'Daily Profit and Loss' and looks like this: Date | Profit 01/01/01 | £1 01/02/02 | £-1 And another is 'Weekly Profit and Loss' Week Beginning | Profit ... How can I get the sum profit per week in the 'Weekly Profit and Loss' spreadsheet? Cheers, Pete ...

Java Date Error

Hi, I am getting date in following format, as java string: Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 CET 2000 i want to convert it to yyyy-MM-dd fromat. For this i am doing: String strDate = "Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 CET 2001"; SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy-MM-dd"); try{ Date parsed = sdf.parse(strDate); }catch(Exception e){ System.out.pri...

MVC2 Editor templates not using datetime format

Following on from an earlier question, I'm having problems using an Editor template for datetime fields, below is the code for the editor template (called "EditDateTime"). <%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<System.DateTime?>" %> <%= Html.TextBox("", (Model.HasValue ? Model.Value.Date.ToString("dd/MMM/yyy...

Specify input date format for /bin/date

I'm creating Unix bash script that parses web-server log file and inserts this data into database. So I need to convert timestamp which has format "05/Oct/2010:07:38:40 +0400" into "YYYY-mm-dd". I've tried to use /bin/date -d, but it does not accept given format. I could not find a way to specify input date format for this tool. Is is p...

make a column in sybase default to the current date/time of row insertion

I have a sybase 15 DB and for one of my tables, I want to make a column default to the current date/time of the row insert. Is this possible? In a sybase text, the following is said: ALTER TABLE sales_order MODIFY order_date DEFAULT CURRENT DATE On my DB this dosn't do anything ,as CURRENT DATE is not recognized. ...

django form datefield with runtime formatting

So, I have a form: class FormBasicInfo(BasicForm): valid_from = forms.DateField(required=False, input_formats=('%d/%m/%Y',), widget=DateInput(format='%d/%m/%Y')) and I set the input and output formats. However, what if I want to set these formats at runtime, based on the date format preference of my user? how can that be done? T...

php - list of dates coming up

All the users are in the United States. I need to be able to list all weekdays besides today. So say that it's Thursday, October 7. It should start by listing Friday, October 8 and then Monday, October 11. I know how to make sure I'm only listing weekdays when looping through, but the trouble I have is making sure tomorrow is tomorrow. ...