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Dates are wonderful

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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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        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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          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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                  • H H Brydon

                    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!

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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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                        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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