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windows xp localtime daylight savings time problem

My XP system with service pack 2 seems to have transitioned to normal non-daylight time BUT the C++ time routines have not. The Date and Time Properties tool tells me it is now 5:26AM CST BUT localtime() and strftime() think it is 6:26CDT. I have relinked the app and restarted the system since the daylight switch to no avail. If I unc...

Software Project - Time Estimation

Hi, I am new to software project time estimation. I have learned that people are using some techniques such as ‘Function point analysis’ , ‘Cocomo model’ etc. Can you tell me the some of the latest and best techniques? Also would you please let me know some good tutorial links for these models so that I could go through them and unde...

How to get PHP time tomorrow 6pm CST?

I need get a timestamp in PHP for the next day 6pm CST $tomorrow = mktime(18, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d")+1, date("y")); echo "Tomorrow is ".date("Y-m-d H:m:s ", $tomorrow); I was unable to set the minutes part for the above code, it is always returning 11 in the minutes part. Tomorrow is 2009-11-06 18:11:00 ...

Can Ruby print out time difference (duration) readily?

Can Ruby do something like this? irb(main):001:0> start = Time.now => Thu Nov 05 01:02:54 -0800 2009 irb(main):002:0> Time.now - start => 25.239 irb(main):003:0> (Time.now - start).duration => "25 seconds" (the duration method doesn't exist now)... and similarly, report 23 minutes and 35 seconds 1 hour and 33 minutes 2 days and 3...

Using the system time for node locked licensing

I have node-locked licensing working, using the MAC address and system time. We're concerned that people will just edit their system date to extend a license, so I've tried getting the real date from an machine in the NTP pool. That works, but then obviously you can't use the product without being online, and it doesn't seem to be 100% r...

how to get tz_info object corresponding to current timezone?

Is there a cross-platform function in python (or pytz) that returns a tzinfo object corresponding to the timezone currently set on the computer? environment variables cannot be counted on as they are not cross-platform ...

PHP - Find next available time slot

I'm looking for help in writing a script to find the next available time slot. Ex: Person A wants an appointment and the available time slots everyday is 9am, 12pm, 4pm, 6pm, 9pm So, I need to check existing data and compare the time slots booked for the other appointments and then find next available. $apts = array( 'Person ...

accurately measure time python function takes

Hello, I need to measure the time certain parts of my program take (not for debugging but as a feature in the output). Accuracy is important because the total time will be a fraction of a second. I was going to use the time module when I came across timeit, which claims to avoid a number of common traps for measuring execution times. U...

correct arguments format for strtotime

Hi, I've been using strtotime("$day-$month-$year"), in my app and it works cool... but know I want to make some date comparisons still in this format but I'm not sure about what is precise, It's as if any format goes ...

PHP last day of the month

How can I get the last day of the month in PHP? Given: $a_date = "2009-11-23" I want 2009-11-30; and given $a_date = "2009-12-23" I want 2009-12-31. ...

PHP 'end date' from a given 'start date' - last day/15th of the following month

I'd like to get an 'end date' from a given 'start date' in PHP. End date is based off the start and are calculated as follows: If Start date is from the 1-15th of the month, End date is the 15th of the following month. If Start date is from the 16-31 of the month, End date is the last day of the following month. eg: $start_date = '20...

TzSpecificLocalTimeToSystemTime during DT -< ST transition

It seems to me there is some ambiguity during the transition between Daylight time to Standard time for example in the US at 2:00 AM DT on 11/1 Daylight time ended and Standard time began the time now being 1:00 AM ST. This means that a time of 1:30 is meaningless unless it is qualified as ST or DT. So, how can TzSpecificLocalTimeToSys...

win32com and PAMIE web page open timeout

Hello, currently im making some crawler script,one of problem is sometimes if i open webpage with PAMIE,webpage can't open and hang forever. are there any method to close PAMIE's IE or win32com's IE ? such like if webpage didn't response or loading complete less than 10sec or so . thanks in advance ...

Odd time store behaviour in ActiveRecord

I have the following entry in my database: t.time :my_time_stamp In my controller I update it like this: model.update_attributes(:my_time_stamp => Time.now.utc) I can see that I'm writing: Mon 9 November, 8:54.54 UTC 2009 However, when I later read this value I get: Sat Jan 01 08:54:54 UTC 2000 It seems that the time part has...

How can I add time values in ASP.NET?

I want to add time values, e.g. 2:00 + 3:00 = 5:00. How can I do that in ASP.NET using C#? ...

Wordpress the_time formatting

Pretty simple question here, hoping for a simple answer. I want to display my wordpress time output as DD.MM.YY So today it would be 10.11.09 I couldn't find anything in the wordpress codex, I supposed its a little php? ...

Dividing a timeval by an integer in C

I'm trying to divide a timeval by an integer. Here's what I've got so far: #include <limits.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { struct timeval my_time; struct timeval my_time_quotient; int i; gettimeofday(&my_time, NULL); i = 5; my_time_quotient = my_time / i; printf("%d secs...

Literal structure for time datatype

I'm working on a DSL that should support a time literal and am interested in two different things: What language(s) or DSL(s) support a time literal? How is the literal structured? I'm leaning towards using the following regular expression, extracted from the XSD for XML Schema itself, for identifying a time literal: T\d\d:\d\d:\d\d...

VB6 Application timing

I am attempting to profile a VB6 application. Basically I wanted to work out at a method by method level how much time execution is taking. However VB6 only supports times to 1 sec. Is there any good way of working out millisecs etc ? ...

How to get the browser/client time when the page loads in portlet

Hi, How can i get the browser/client time when the page loads in portlet. I need to do an algorithm based on the clients time zone, What it means is that during the render phase of the portlet I need to get the time zone of the browser. Is it possible, if so how ? Any Help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Micheal ...