date-conversion

What's the BEST way to remove the time portion of a datetime value (SQL Server)

Here's what I use: SELECT CAST(FLOOR(CAST(getdate() as FLOAT)) as DATETIME) I'm thinking there may be a better/more elegant way. Requirements: - It has to be as fast as possible (the less casting the better) - Final result has to be a datetime type, not a string ...

jython date conversion

Given a string as below, I need to convert: 1 Dec 2008 06:43:00 +0100 to MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SSAM using jython what is the best way to do this? ...

Converting JSON date(ticks) to NSDate

Does anyone know how to convert a JSON date(ticks) to an NSDate in Objective-C? Can someone post some code? ...

Convert Between Datetime Formats Using Perl

We're currently using a 3rd party API that provides datetime in the following format: Sat Mar 06 09:00:00 ICST 2010 Fri Feb 19 19:30:00 JDT 2010 Fri Feb 19 19:30:00 PST 2010 However, we want to store these datetime objects in MySQL in a standard datetime field which requires the following format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS Right now we're...

In Oracle, why does this return March 1st?

In Oracle, this returns 03/01/2010. That does not make sense to me. Anybody know why? SELECT TO_DATE( '2010' ,'yyyy' ) AS STRANGE_YEAR_RESULT FROM DUAL I've tried on Oracle 10g and 11g. ...

Days since 1900

I'm using data from Excel2007 as parsed by PHPExcel, and dates come out as days since 1900. How can I convert to string of 'YYYY-MM-DD' (or anything similar)? ...