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Is there a constant for “end of time”?
For some systems, the time value 9999-12-31 is used as the "end of time" as the end of the time that the computer can calculate. But what if it changes? Wouldn't it be better to define this time as a ...
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Which timezone is used for permalinks of posts
I wanted to add timezone support to my blog app but got stuck with a design problem.
Every post has a published_on field which stores the publication date in a timezone aware format (UTC converted to ...
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International two-part date formats
Do people outside of the USA use two-part date abbreviations for the current year? For instance, representing the last day of May, you might see someone enter 5/31 into a date field.
Do international ...
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Should I use the Date type in JAX-RS @PathParam?
This is what I'm thinking about doing on a JEE Glassfish server using Jersey.
@GET
@Path("/{name}/{date}")
public String getMessages(@PathParam("name") String name, @PathParam("date") Date date)
I ...
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Best representation for relative dates & durations
I use ISO 8601 to represent dates & durations and all is OK.
But now I need to represent relative dates and durations like:
The date for first day, at midnight, of the next week
All the last ...
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isn't number localization just unnecessary?
I've just read this page http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/10/jquery-globalization-plugin-from-microsoft.aspx
One of the things they did was to convert the arabic date to the arabic ...
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Is there a universal date format that anyone in the world can understand?
In Canada, everyone is familiar with the date format YYYY-MM-DD. In Europe or South Africa, they prefer DD-MM-YYYY. There are users from South Africa who get confused with the YYYY-MM-DD date ...
