There has to be an easier way to do this. I have objects that want to be refreshed every so often, so I want to record when they were created, check against the current timestamp, and refresh as necessary. datetime.datetime has proven to be difficult, and I don’t want to dive into the ctime library. … Read more
Is there a way one can represent a time only value in .NET without the date? For example, indicating the opening time of a shop? TimeSpan indicates a range, whereas I only want to store a time value. Using DateTime to indicate this would result in new DateTime(1,1,1,8,30,0) which is not really desirable. 10 Answers … Read more
Is there a simple way to time the execution of a command in PowerShell, like the ‘time’ command in Linux? I came up with this: $s=Get-Date; .\do_something.ps1 ; $e=Get-Date; ($e – $s).TotalSeconds But I would like something simpler like time .\do_something.ps1 9 Answers 9
I know I can do anything and some more envolving Dates with momentjs. But embarrassingly, I’m having a hard time trying to do something that seems simple: geting the difference between 2 times. Example: var now = “04/09/2013 15:00:00”; var then = “04/09/2013 14:20:30”; //expected result: “00:39:30” what I tried: var now = moment(“04/09/2013 15:00:00”); … Read more
Python provides different packages (datetime, time, calendar) as can be seen here in order to deal with time. I made a big mistake by using the following to get current GMT time time.mktime(datetime.datetime.utcnow().timetuple()) What is a simple way to get current GMT time in Unix timestamp? 10 Answers 10
I currently have an app displaying the build number in its title window. That’s well and good except it means nothing to most of the users, who want to know if they have the latest build – they tend to refer to it as “last Thursday’s” rather than build 1.0.8.4321. The plan is to put … Read more
This question already has answers here: How do I get a UTC Timestamp in JavaScript? (16 answers) Closed 9 years ago. How can I get the current UTC timestamp in JavaScript? I want to do this so I can send timestamps from the client-side that are independent of their timezone. 4 Answers 4
The time module can be initialized using seconds since epoch: >>> import time >>> t1=time.gmtime(1284286794) >>> t1 time.struct_time(tm_year=2010, tm_mon=9, tm_mday=12, tm_hour=10, tm_min=19, tm_sec=54, tm_wday=6, tm_yday=255, tm_isdst=0) Is there an elegant way to initialize a datetime.datetime object in the same way? 5 Answers 5
How to calculate minute difference between two date-times in PHP? 21 Answers 21
Is there a standardized way in R of measuring execution time of function? Obviously I can take system.time before and after execution and then take the difference of those, but I would like to know if there is some standardized way or function (would like to not invent the wheel). I seem to remember that … Read more
