Questions tagged [date-format]
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Parse 8 bytes to date time
I am trying to parse a file created by another software, but I cant identify a pattern on how this datetime is saved. There doesnt seem to be any consistency. Programming language of the software is C+...
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Correct format to receive datatime data from consumer
I am working on a service in a sprint boot microservice application. The consumer for my service can be another service, as well as a UI component. The are 5 entities in my service, each entity having ...
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How to manage 2 libraries that do mostly the same things in a project?
I am encountering a design problem on a new project. I have chosen the library Luxon (https://moment.github.io/luxon/) because I think it suits this project perfectly. Date-fns (https://date-fns.org/) ...
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Is Date a String or a complex object?
It is my first post here and I thought it really fits on this side than on the regular website. I am sure many of you (programmers) must have had nightmares with this Date 'object', either in your ...
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Is there any technical reason why, in programming, the default date format is YYYYMMDD and not something else?
Is there any engineering reason why is it like that? I was wondering in the case of a RDBMS that it had something to do with performance, since a "YEAR" is more specific than a "MONTH", for instance: ...
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Working with user timezones in the web browser and reports generated in the back-end
I have searched a lot on how to handle timezone in a web app. My application saves all dates as UTC in the database and returns UTC dates in json requests, so javascript proper handle conversions in ...
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What is the preferable date-format used for designing APIs and storage
The date format should support different timezone and Daylight saving issues.
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About my database date datatype crusade: Valid? Worthwhile? Does anyone else feel it?
I spend a lot of time answering SQL questions over on SO. I frequently come across queries of this ilk: SELECT * FROM person WHERE birthdate BETWEEN '01/01/2017' AND '01/03/2017' SELECT * FROM ...
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Working with timezones when storing dates in mysql
I have just a basic site with registration. With all other data, it stores the registration date in MySQL. If I'm in USA or in Canada, and I register at 2017-03-07 (Y-d-m), in MySQL it's 2017-04-07 ...
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Optimal format for storing key/value data optimized for quick key lookup
For a completely fun project, I want to write a Markov chain chat bot. The algorithm used is quite simple - break down incoming sentences into tokens, storing what words tend to come after each token ...
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Historic (and prehistoric) dates in Ruby [closed]
In Ruby, is there a standard class or gem to work with dates that can be - but are not required to be - historical in nature? The dates have precision (to the nearest million years, decade, century, ...
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What is the difference between "kk" and "HH"+1 in ISO-8601?
In the ISO-8601 there are multiple hour formats, one of them is "kk" for hours 1-24. What is the purpose of this? Are there countries that offset their time? Is it for military usages? The ...
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Dealing with date fields across browsers
I'm building a web application with multiple forms which all require date fields, and these fields need to be supported across IE, Chrome, and the like. Our application currently packages the output ...
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Groovy date/time compare [closed]
I have this string got from JIRA as the date/time I need to compare which one is earlier:"21/Sep/12 2:01 PM". How can I do this in Groovy? Thanks Jirong
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standard format to describe opening schedules
I am working on a project in which I have to model opening schedules (eg a swimming pool is opened from 10:30am to 5pm on Tuesday from january to May. I try to fit this data in a csv and I started ...
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