DateTime objects in many programming languages describe an instant in time, expressed as a date and time of day.
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Finding the date from “2nd Friday of X month”-style input
I've been working through some puzzles from exercism.io. Current puzzle asks me to return a date() from input that essentially says "The 3rd Friday of December" or ...
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Sunrise calculator [on hold]
I'm taking a stab at learning Swift, and thought I'd ask for a code review. Basically, can you look at the code and tell me whether where the novice errors are, and what I should be doing instead?
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java.sql.Timestamps: There's gotta be an easier way
I have a function that counts how many "assists" a team performs during the course of their day. The way I've written it feels bulky and inefficient using GregorianCalendar.
Basically, the ...
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Seasons by month and day
Write a program reads two integers representing a month and day and prints the season for that month and day. Assume that months are specified as an integer between 1 and 12 (1 for January, 2 for ...
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Returning two dates based on input
I created a function that will return 2 dates that depend on an input parameter.
When the parameter is:
1 - return start date of current week and end date of current week
2 - return start date of ...
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Schedule conflicts approximating program
This small application is used to approximate conflicts in a schedule. Using a minimal time span of 30 minutes in my example, the application should be able to figure if there's a conflict in +/- 30 ...
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Normalizing `DateTime` values to strings
I have this as part of a project to normalize DateTime values to more readable strings, localized to the relative time in the past that they happened.
It allows ...
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Project Euler #19: Counting Sundays in the 20th century using Pandas
Project Euler #19 asks:
How many Sundays fell on the first of the month during the twentieth century (1 Jan 1901 to 31 Dec 2000)?
I'm hoping I wasn't too off course from the spirit of the ...
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C++ calendar printer
I was at CppCon last week and watched a clever talk about using ranges and calendars. This is just me trying to play around with the new technology.
Step 1: dump out a calendar.
Usage:
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The Badge Bot 9000
Because I'm both lazy and wanting to mess around more with time management and Ruby, I thought it would be fun to create a simple script that opens Code Review once every day to go towards the daily ...
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Working Days DateDiff function
I have a calendar table with a record for every date I need to care about (i.e. 365 records per year), with various meta-information about each date, including the weekday, the fiscal calendar week, ...
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Revealing store sales based on time
I am delving into trying to write some JavaScript code.
I understand the basics, (the very basics...) enough that I have been able to write the following and it works.
However, my knowledge doesn't ...
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Countdown clock in Python
This project is from the subreddit for beginner Python projects:
The goal of the project is to create a program that allows the user to choose a time and date, and then prints out a message at ...
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Designing a generic C++1z class [closed]
I'm designing a generic interface for a MessageEntry class for a .h file.
I'm looking for guidance on form and terminology (would I call this an interface/template/generic class?):
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Program that tells if a date is valid in C
I'm reading a book about C programming, at the end of each chapter it has some training exercise and one of them was to make a program that tells if a date is valid or not, the code below is what I ...
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Aggregate sum by month
I have JSON data:
var data = [ { dat: 'timestamp', val: 10 }, { dat: 'timestamp', val: 20}, (...)]
Data contains objects with timestamp and value, can be more ...
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Printing the days of the week for every day this year
@chux pointed out that my attempted solution contained several problems. Since I screwed that up so badly, I figure that I should put my revised solution up for review.
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Adding 1 to JavaScript Date while binding using knockoutjs [duplicate]
I am using knockoutjs to bind some values in an array. For each entry in the array I have a date value TimeByDay that I bind like this:
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Displaying days of the week for all of 2015
This program is supposed to determine the day of the week for 2015. Could someone tell me how I could shorten my code?
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Convert a date string to a DateTime object in C#
I was just wondering if my code contains defects or if there was a more efficient or general way to convert string to DateTime object. In the input, I have a string ...
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Birthday validity-checking
I have written code to check any birthday input's validity. As I am new in programming, and after going through several debugging steps, the code became very ugly.
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Small Calendar “Widget”
I have been working on a calendar widget for the past hour or so. I wonder if it could be compacted any more than it already is (ignoring whitespace).
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Mengenlehreuhr in Python
Telling the time based on the "set theory principle", the Mengenlehreuhr consists of 24 lights which are divided into one circular blinking yellow light on top to denote the seconds, two top ...
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Extracting a date and time from a log file
I am trying to make my code as legible as possible, and today I wrote the following snippet and I'm unsure as to whether it can be improved in an obvious way. There's always room for improvement, of ...
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Return Nth Weekday of Month
My goal is to obtain the nth weekday of a given month. Parameters are a date from a given month and the nth weekday I'm trying to obtain. It returns the Nth Weekday of the month if it exist and ...
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Updating datetime fields from UTC to local time zone
I have created an SQL query to update datetime fields from UTC to local time zone. Can someone review this?
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Datepickers for departure and return dates
I have to two datepickers. I want achieve a following functionality: when return date cannot be selected before departure and departure cannot be after return date. Mainly I am interested in ...
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Deleting most recent files by parsing filename
I have hundreds of .mp3 files in a single directory of the same naming format, title_YYYY-MM-DD.mp3, with maybe 30 different ...
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Calculating German common holidays
I wrote a simple dll which is able to calculate all common holidays, but, I would like to optimize the code in readability and flexibility.
Federal state
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Writing a utility class for converting between datetime and timestamp
I'm writing an Python application that uses frequently datetime and Unix timestamp. I know Python is 'batteries included', however, I found that converting between datetime and timestamp in Python 2.6 ...
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Date formatters, lazily instantiated once
I would like to create two date formatters only on first call. In Objective-C I would use dispatch_once() but now working in Swift. Am I doing it correctly? My code ...
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WPF DateTimePicker user control
I've created a UserControl that should act as a control inside a Window:
XAML:
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Countdown script
I made a script in JavaScript to calculate how long it takes until a certain date.
Do you find it user-friendly enough? Is the code correct?
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Listing every date between two dates in input fields
Using the following HTML:
<input type="date" value="2015-07-26" name="startdate">
<input type="date" value="2015-07-29" name="enddate">
First, the JS ...
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Transforming data from an array of objects to a nested array of objects
I have an array of objects where each object has a datetime key/value pair:
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Parsing time if valid
I need to parse only valid timestamp formats:
Hours followed by minutes followed by seconds: t=1h2m3s
Minutes followed by seconds: ...
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Bucketizing time (e.g., 4 min => 0-5 min)
Specification:
Given a string (e.g., the content of an article), print the estimated reading time by bucketizing time into increasingly large chunks in the form "5-10 min" or "48 min-2 hr".
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How much time is left?
rags-to-riches of Convert seconds to hours, minutes and seconds.
In that question, BigDecimal was chosen to be the model class, which doesn't seem like a right fit ...
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Every year is like a loop. A nasty, nested one
Quite a little while ago, I wrote a VBA macro to generate fiscal calendar date records. That macro did the job all this time, but I needed to be able to generate fiscal years from an ETL overnight ...
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Prorated Refund Calculator (v2)
This is a follow-up question to original Prorated Refund Calculator. Here is the summary of the changes I made since last, thanks to the good answers and some study of my own.
Did away with ...
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Alarm clock printing
I know there must be an easier way to write this but I'm stuck in over-complicating mindset instead of just following the Zen of Python. Please help me simplify this.
Given a day of the week ...
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Leap year check in Java
I'm looking for 3 different answers:
Using Java predefined functions
Converting from string to number
Without the above two (any other types of answers are also welcome)
I am looking for improving ...
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Get Next and Previous “Load Day”
I keep looking at this trying to figure if there's a better way. All three functions work, but I wanted to get some insights and ideas from others.
IsLoadDay ...
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Date composition from day, month and year input
I need to concatenate 3 input fields into a string which is formatted as a date dd-mm-yyyy, using type="date" or ...
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Getting all the UTC “day stamps” between 2 dates
I need to get every UTC day stamp in yyyy-MM-dd format (e.g. "2015-07-02") between any two arbitrary Date fields.
My first attempt is this:
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Rewriting hours
I am just trying to rewrite hours; say 1:24PM, if 24 > 30 then it is 2PM, otherwise it is 1PM.
I really doubt that I am doing it right, first I am sure it looks so amateur, second I am not sure if it ...
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Class for returning a different value every so often
I have a class that I'm trying to determine a good name for. I don't know if this concept comes up a lot in programming or not, but I'm wondering if I can get some suggestions for a good name for the ...
