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Dates are wonderful

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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?

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      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

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        TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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        Especially ones that are slightly decrepit.

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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:

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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

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

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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

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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!

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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

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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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