datetime

asp.net mvc: date comparison fails on production server

I have a simple comparison in my view to see if an event is in the past: <% if (model.EventDate < DateTime.Now) { %> <td style="color: red;"> <% } else { %> <td> <% } %> This works fine on my dev machine, running via Cassini, but on the server it seems to be interpreting 01/12/2010 as Dec. 1, not Jan 12. Ho...

How to handle special DateTime values - example Present

DateTimes are usually some number of ticks from some starting date. These are usually displayed by some type of tool such as a calendar or the like. It seems to me that sometimes an application would like to store a DateTime with a special meaning, like "When evaluated" or "Never" or "Unknown". For example I worked in a company where ...

how to get the number on months between two dates in sql server 2005

i have a column in my sql server 2005 table that should hold the number of months an employee has been in service. Since i also have the date the employee was engaged, i want the "months_In_Service" column to be a computed column. now if i use datediff(month,[DateEngaged],getdate()) as the formula for the months in service computed colum...

Parsing a Date Like "Wednesday 13th January 2010" with .NET

How can I convert the following strings to a System.DateTime object? Wednesday 13th January 2010 Thursday 21st January 2010 Wednesday 3rd February 2010 Normally something like the following would do it DateTime dt; DateTime.TryParseExact(value, "dddd d MMMM yyyy", DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo, DateTimeStyles.None, out dt); but...

JavaScript/jQuery could do with some improvement

I am in the process of stripping down some code I've written for a Time Frame selector function that filters search results based on a selected Time Frame (Last Month, Last Quarter & Last Year) by hiding all irrelevant results based on when they were created. The function is called by a GET variable submitted on form submit ?time_frame_q...

Linq query with Datetime Object

I want to receive the newest item from a collection. Each item has an DateTime field (EditDate) and I do a little query like that. var s = from l in OCollectionAgents where l.IDOfVehicle == agent.IDOfVehicle orderby agent.EditDate ascending select l; After the query I do agent.DetailInformationOfResults.NewestAgentEdi...

iPhone CurrentTimeZoneOffset from UTC

Is there a way to get the offset time zone for a given date. For example, if I am in New York and I pass in 12-12-2009 4 PM I would get back "-4" as we are 4 hours off GMT. (In .NET land there is a function to do that off the DateTime class. So I'm guess Cocoa has it too?) Ian ...

Convert MYSQL Timestamp to time_t

I'm writing a multi-threaded program that needs to be able to check if a row requires updating and act accordingly. I had problems using the built in date/time functions of MySql and so decided to just store the "lastupdate" timestamp as an integer in the table. However, I'm having problems converting this timestamp to time_t so that I...

How do I get the difference (in seconds) between 2 dates without using: strtotime, the Zend Framework or a PEAR package?

Hello good people! :) As the title states, I want to get the difference (in seconds) between 2 (specifically between now and a date in the past) dates without using: strtotime, the Zend Framework or a PEAR package. I don't want to get into the details of my reason but the gist of it is that I'm working with very old dates (and I do mea...

Test to fail this DateTime parsing in C#?

Hi, I have an issue with parsing a date during a unit test run, but I cannot reproduce it. To make it more interesting it fails when the test is run by a continuous integration process but succeeds when run within Visual Studio, and they both run on the same machine, although with a different user. Here's the test: [Test] public void T...

Setting date to a variable in a PHP class

I think this is a really, really simple question but I can't seem to find the answer. I'm trying to set default values for properties in a PHP class and one of them is a date so I'm trying to use the date() function to set it: <?php class Person { public $fname = ""; public $lname = ""; public $bdate = date("c"); publ...

dos date/time calculation

I am working on a project that involves converting data into dos date and time. using a hex editor (Hex Workshop) i have looked through the file manually and and found the values I am looking for, however I am unsure how they are calculated. I am told that the int16 value 15430 corresponds to the date 06/02/2010 but i can see no correlat...

Missing datetime.time.__sub__?

Why I can't subtract two time object? 12:00 - 11:00 = 1:00 from datetime import time time(12,00) - time(11,00) # -> timedelta(hours=1) Actually TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'datetime.time' and 'datetime.time' ...

Convert keyword in SQL Server 2005

Hi guys, I want to convert a DATETIME field (DateOfBirth)... When I execute the following query it says invalid syntax near convert SELECT e.Emp_Id,e.Emp_Name,e.Address,e.Department, (convert(varchar, e.Date_Of_Birth, 103) as Date_Of_Birth) from Employee as e But when I execute the below query it gives result but my dateofbirth colu...

How to read system time in WPF for updating SQL Server timestamp field?

For the purpose of organizing streamlined database timer-based polling, with every updating of database table I need to update a timestamp field in a SQL Server 2008 database (then poll, read its value, compare with the value in front-end and making decisions about reading the whole table). Regarding all this, how I could read system ti...

Windows file creation date/time using python

I need to get a file creation date&time using python. I tried: os.stat(r"path")[ST_CTIME] But it is returning: 1263538277 This is not the creation date time. Is there a way to do it? ...

working with Ajax popup

ok i need a pop up box to select date and time... but im having some trouble... i used first modal popup (ajax) for the popup... that is working but not looking neat... then i put a textbox in it with the calender extender... the problem here is when i click on textbox calender pops up but it does not seem to work because nothing is...

Validating date format inside a groovy controller

Hello, I have to validate the format of a date string coming from a csv file. I use the csvReader(au.com.bytecode.opencsv.CSVReader) parser. Below is the code I use to get the data from the csv reader and change it to a date format. def String strToDate = csvrow[monatVal] myDate = new Date().parse("dd.MM.yy HH:mm",strToDate) The pro...

How can I validate a "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ" date/timestamp in UTC with Perl?

Code would be nice but a point in the right direction is good as well. CPAN? RegEx? I've seen both ways "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ"; "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ"; ...

Using GregorianCalendar.setGregorianChange for calculating time difference

I'm reading Uncle Bob's "The Craftsman" series, and have gotten to #29 (PDF). In it, there's this snippet in test code, for asserting dates are close enough: private boolean DatesAreVeryClose(Date date1, Date date2) { GregorianCalendar c1 = new GregorianCalendar(); GregorianCalendar c2 = new GregorianCalendar(); c1.setGregorianCha...