Microsoft, Javascript and not cutting corners

[kristopher baker]

HOLY GEEZUS! I like TypeScript and all but what What WHAT?! Shouldn't This Be Easier(TM)

[Super Lloyd]

holymolly.. only 3 top line are typescript specific.. the rest is plain old javascript format function! ;)

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[Super Lloyd]

Don't worry, I made a javascript only version for ya! Much simplerer! ;)

// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14638018/current-time-formatting-with-javascript
Date.prototype.format = function (pattern, utc) {
var MMMM = ["\x00", "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"];
var MMM = ["\x01", "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];
var dddd = ["\x02", "Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"];
var ddd = ["\x03", "Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"];

function ii(i, len) {
    var s = i + "";
    len = len || 2;
    while (s.length < len) s = "0" + s;
    return s;
}

var y = utc ? this.getUTCFullYear() : this.getFullYear();
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])yyyy+/g, "$1" + y);
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])yy/g, "$1" + y.toString().substr(2, 2));
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])y/g, "$1" + y);

var M = (utc ? this.getUTCMonth() : this.getMonth()) + 1;
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])MMMM+/g, "$1" + MMMM\[0\]);
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])MMM/g, "$1" + MMM\[0\]);
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])MM/g, "$1" + ii(M));
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])M/g, "$1" + M);

var d = utc ? this.getUTCDate() : this.getDate();
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])dddd+/g, "$1" + dddd\[0\]);
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])ddd/g, "$1" + ddd\[0\]);
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])dd/g, "$1" + ii(d));
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])d/g, "$1" + d);

var H = utc ? this.getUTCHours() : this.getHours();
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])HH+/g, "$1" + ii(H));
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])H/g, "$1" + H);

var h = H > 12 ? H - 12 : H == 0 ? 12 : H;
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])hh+/g, "$1" + ii(h));
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])h/g, "$1" + h);

var m = utc ? this.getUTCMinutes() : this.getMinutes();
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])mm+/g, "$1" + ii(m));
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])m/g, "$1" + m);

var s = utc ? this.getUTCSeconds() : this.getSeconds();
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])ss+/g, "$1" + ii(s));
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])s/g, "$1" + s);

var f = utc ? this.getUTCMilliseconds() : this.getMilliseconds();
pattern = pattern.replace(/(^|\[^\\\\\])fff+/g

[Richard Deeming]

SyntaxError: missing ) after formal parameters You've left the TypeScript parameter types in there.

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[Super Lloyd]

my bad, haha, corrected!

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[Richard Deeming]

Quote:

function ii(i: number, len?: number) {

You've corrected the outer function, but not the inner one. :-D

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[Super Lloyd]

damn you man, this is way too much attention to detail! I am having a sleepless night watching movie now! ;P

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[DerekT P]

Yes, I said I was being lazy. Yes, I know I did it a foolish way. The ONLY point of my post in Weird and Wonderful was to highlight a weird and wonderful (and undocumented, it would seem) change in the Time Zone description by Microsoft from "Daylight Time" to "Summer Time" with Win8 (and, it would seem, back to "Daylight Time" in Win10). "This forum is purely for amusement"

[Kirk 10389821]

I get the point of the post. But I want to make sure YOU and even OTHERS realize that the solution is to really work to insulate yourself from these things from the jump. In fact, I just "auto saved" a file in my program, and I forced the YYYYMMDD_HHNNSS format to the prefix, so it is sortable, and gives a clue as to when it was made, how old, etc.

[James Curran]

Why are you screwing around with strings? In Javascript "Date.now()" returns the number of milliseconds since 1/1/1970 (GMT). Pass that number in the URL. On the server-side:

new DateTime(1970,1,1) + new TimeSpan(now * 1000)

Give you the date/time.

Truth, James

[Herbie Mountjoy]

Ah! Many happy memories of hair tearing and cat kicking. So many variables and none of them nice. My best suggestion is to convert all dates into standard strings using the inbuilt date formatting functions. Whatever you do, don't pass dates as date objects. You will regret it...

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[EveryNameIsTakenEvenThisOne]

Quote:

I have some Javascript code

That's where I stopped, already more horror than I can take, can't risk reading the continuation. Be strong.

[sx2008]

There is a standard date/time format when interchanging information between different applications: [ISO 8601](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO\_8601)

string data = "2017-04-14T01:27:00+02";
DateTime dt = DateTime.Parse(data);

[DerekT P]

Ha ha! The issue was nothing to do with Javascript, rather Microsoft's random renaming of time zones.