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Can my PHP time difference function be improved?

Below is my function that will take a timestamp and tell you the time that has passed from now in the format of 23 days 3 hours 4 minutes 6 seconds The main problem is on my site I use mysql's DATETIME instead of TIMESTAMP so to use this function I must convert my datetime from mysql to a timestamp and then run it through my function....

Does the formatting of a date depend on both the user's locale and calendar system?

I feel this question is very general for all programmers on all languages. This is somewhat blurry. First, there are locales, which encapsulate cultural information and other stuff. I believe these locale objects also encapsulate information about date and time formatting, i.e. how to display a date, in Unicode Standard. Like so, for exa...

C Programming How to find the time interval between events

Im using a handyboard and interactive c software and the task is to find the rpm of a lego motor in real time using an Infrared "Break Beam" Sensor on the wheel. I was thinking about finding the time interval between the beam being broken and then from there calculating the rpm but i cant figure out exactly how to do that. Any help would...

why am I getting '4:00' when I'm trying to display time using the date function with php?

I am trying to display a time I have in my database. I managed to have it display a time in the correct format for what I need, but for some reason, it is only displaying '4:00' every time. Here is my code: date('g:i', strtotime($row['startTime'])) An example of I have the time displayed in my database is like this: 00:12:30 Why i...

Find out the time since unix epoch for a certain date time?

I want to find out the time in unix time (ie seconds since the unix epoch) on 9:00 BST on 1st October 2009. How can I do this on the linux command line? I know you can use date @$UNIXTIME '+%someformat', but the unix time is what I'm trying to figure out ...

Getting the Time component of a Java Date or Calendar

Is there a simple or elegant way to grab only the time of day (hours/minutes/seconds/milliseconds) part of a Java Date (or Calendar, it really doesn't matter to me)? I'm looking for a nice way to separately consider the date (year/month/day) and the time-of-day parts, but as far as I can tell, I'm stuck with accessing each field separat...

python DST and GMT management into a scheduler

I'm planning to write a sheduler app in python and I wouldn't be in trouble with DST and GMT handling. As example see also PHP related question 563053. Does anyone worked already on something similar? Does anyone already experienced with PyTZ - Python Time Zone Library? ...

loading dotnetnuke into memory in background

If there were no visits to the dotnetnuke portal for some time, depending on the host, the dotnetnuke is unloaded from server's memory. The first visitor that comes next is then forced to wait about 15+ seconds (depending on server's speed) in order to see the page. Dotnetnuke is a big framework but sometimes ends up serving low traffic ...

add two or more time strings in php

Hi, I have an array with times (string) e.g "2:23", "3:2:22" etc. $times = array("2:33", "4:2:22", "3:22") //loner I want to find the total sum of all array. Is there a way that I could add times like "2:33" and "3:33" ("i:s") thanks ...

Timepicker in 00:00 24H format

Hi, I want timepicker like time format in Mobile that we are using same ... i had tray j-query but here i got 15 min stamp format like i cant give time as 16:32 so please anyone have any idea for this please ... Thanks Trushal Shah ...

fast elapsed time on linux

Hi there, I am looking for a fast way to get the elapsed time between two calls of a function in C. I considered using jiffies, but they are not available in userland. So, should I use getimeofday() or is there any fastest way to do this. I am only interested in the elasped time between two calls, to use in a benchmark tool. ...

Python: convert seconds to hh:mm:ss

Hi, Please, how to convert an int (number a seconds) to these formats: mm:ss or hh:mm:ss ? I need to do this with Python code (and if possible in a Django template ?). Thank you very much ;-) ...

Timing issues in my VB .Net application

I made a program that opens an application, sleeps the thread for 500ms then takes a picture of the frame's handle. I do this to about 600 files. Oddly enough, every 40 or so files, the process.kill() doesnt work or something, because the application hangs, and the running files program is running, when it should have been killed, then m...

Strtotime with European date format

Hi, I'm trying to use strtotime to convert the following date: 07/09/2009 17:01:27 It's the Europe/London timezone format for 7th of September The function is inverting the month and the days, is there any workaround? thanks ...

Python: display the time in a different time zone

Hi, Is there an elegant way to display the current time in another time zone? I would like to have something with the general spirit of: cur=<Get the current time, perhaps datetime.datetime.now()> print "Local time ", cur print "Pacific time ", <something like cur.tz('PST')> print "Israeli time ", <something like cur.tz('IST')> An...

How can i stop cakephp to stamp execution time of the page?

Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1220855/how-to-remove-cakephps-trailing-timing-benchmark-comment cakephp stamps execution time as html comment at the bottom of the page, something like <!-- 4.031 s --> How can i stop cakephp to output this?? I need to avoid this print because in some ajax queries (that...

Python: convert free text to date

Hi, Assuming the text is typed at the same time in the same (Israeli) timezone, The following free text lines are equivalent: Wed Sep 9 16:26:57 IDT 2009 2009-09-09 16:26:57 16:26:57 September 9th, 16:26:57 Is there a python module that would convert all these text-dates to an (identical) datetime.datetime instance? I would like to...

SQL Convert to GMT DateTime

Hi there, i wan't to convert my records entries from dateTtime+OFFSET to dateTtimeZ directly (2008-05-11T15:30:00+2--->2008-05-11T13:30:00Z) with sql functions. Don't know how to do this :-( I need to implement this using MySql prefering not using stored procs Thx ...

Is there a Java 1.4 library that returns time in microseconds?

I was wondering if there was a Java 1.4 library that would return a higher precision time value than your trusted Date.getTime() millisecond value, something similar to System.nanoTime() but for a JDK 1.4? A custom JNI with C++ QueryPerformanceCounter is the only solution, or something like this has been done before and can be reused? ...

rails time demon in my machine... it eats 2 hours have checked everything!

I have my checked my environment.rb config.time_zone = 'Prague' Nothing in development.rb regarding time This seems to work, in theory... Time.zone.now # Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:51:35 CEST +02:00 also correct... Time.now # Thu Sep 10 17:52:10 +0200 2009 mysql... SELECT NOW() # 2009-09-10 17:53:48 correct! but when I create a new ...