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Dates are wonderful

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  • R Roger Wright

    I've heard that a tablespoon of castor oil will clear that up for you.

    Will Rogers never met me.

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    TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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    or a suppository.

    If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
    You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
    Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

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    • T tumbledDown2earth

      Dates are really wonderful until you get into date-time formats, time-zones and localization and formatted strings

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      dan sh
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      Especially in middle east. Wait...you are not talking about those dates, are you?

      "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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      • L Lost User

        I find that they block you up a bit if you eat to many.

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        dusty_dex
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        Just complement them with prunes or figs. :-D

        "It's true that hard work never killed anyone. But I figure, why take the chance." - Ronald Reagan That's what machines are for. Got a problem? Sleep on it.

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          Just complement them with prunes or figs. :-D

          "It's true that hard work never killed anyone. But I figure, why take the chance." - Ronald Reagan That's what machines are for. Got a problem? Sleep on it.

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          TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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          Especially ones that are slightly decrepit.

          If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
          You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
          Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

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          • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

            or a suppository.

            If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
            You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
            Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

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            CMullikin
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            A suppository of castor oil? :omg:

            The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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              A suppository of castor oil? :omg:

              The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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              TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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              That's a greasy situation...

              If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
              You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
              Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

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              • T tumbledDown2earth

                Dates are really wonderful until you get into date-time formats, time-zones and localization and formatted strings

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                Lost User
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                tumbledDown2earth wrote:

                Dates are really wonderful until you get into date-time formats, time-zones and localization and formatted strings

                As an unformatted Double, it's beauty. It's the localized representations that suck.

                Console.WriteLine("Posted on star-date: {0}", DateTime.Now.ToOADate());
                Posted on star-date: 41386,8388463889

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                  tumbledDown2earth wrote:

                  Dates are really wonderful until you get into date-time formats, time-zones and localization and formatted strings

                  As an unformatted Double, it's beauty. It's the localized representations that suck.

                  Console.WriteLine("Posted on star-date: {0}", DateTime.Now.ToOADate());
                  Posted on star-date: 41386,8388463889

                  Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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                  dusty_dex
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                  > "It's the localized representations that suck." That and daylight savings. X|

                  "It's true that hard work never killed anyone. But I figure, why take the chance." - Ronald Reagan That's what machines are for. Got a problem? Sleep on it.

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                  • T Thomas Daniels

                    yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss That's how I format it.

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                    H Brydon
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                    That is called comparison time format or (almost) ISO 8601[^].

                    -- Harvey

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                    • T tumbledDown2earth

                      Dates are really wonderful until you get into date-time formats, time-zones and localization and formatted strings

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                      Mladen Jankovic
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                      That is rather unorthodox approach to dating. It may be a cliché, but why don't you try with something easier, like favorite movie? Instead of favorite date/time format?

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                      • T tumbledDown2earth

                        Dates are really wonderful until you get into date-time formats, time-zones and localization and formatted strings

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                        GuyThiebaut
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                        Previously working with SAS and Windows I had great(not) fun with dates as SAS starts its counting in 1960. So for every SAS data you had to apply a weighting to bring it into line with a Windows generated date. Why can't we just have a star date like Catpain[sic] Kirk has? Signing off star date: -309693.60594241496

                        “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

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                        • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                          That's a greasy situation...

                          If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
                          You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
                          Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein

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                          RedDk
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                          That's like trying to ... wait I can't say that in the CP lounge can I?

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                            That is called comparison time format or (almost) ISO 8601[^].

                            -- Harvey

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                            Jan Steyn
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                            And the only format you can safely used around me. I might harm you if you use any other format.

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                            • T tumbledDown2earth

                              Dates are really wonderful until you get into date-time formats, time-zones and localization and formatted strings

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                              Mike Hankey
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                              Until they start talking about there exex, how they hate when a man doesn't leave the seat up, etc... Oh DateTime...never mind!

                              VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.

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                              • T tumbledDown2earth

                                Dates are really wonderful until you get into date-time formats, time-zones and localization and formatted strings

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                                tumbledDown2earth
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                                So finally there are 3 known kinds of dates (at least in English) ...

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                                • T tumbledDown2earth

                                  Dates are really wonderful until you get into date-time formats, time-zones and localization and formatted strings

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                                  Brady Kelly
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                                  Or when you have to randomize dates and times to reflect real world scenarios, like a car's time in a parkade.

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                                    tumbledDown2earth wrote:

                                    Dates are really wonderful until you get into date-time formats, time-zones and localization and formatted strings

                                    As an unformatted Double, it's beauty. It's the localized representations that suck.

                                    Console.WriteLine("Posted on star-date: {0}", DateTime.Now.ToOADate());
                                    Posted on star-date: 41386,8388463889

                                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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                                    BobJanova
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                                    Best thing about this post: even your output has suffered from localisation!

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