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Dates are wonderful

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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...

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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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                  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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                    • L Lost User

                      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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