DateTime objects in many programming languages describe an instant in time, expressed as a date and time of day.

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Python - get tuple of the first and last days of the last N months

I am trying to get a tuple of date (or datetime) objects over the last N months. My thought was to use the dateutil package with something like this: def last_n_months(n=12, ending=None): ...
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Date formatter for javascript

I just coded this formatter to format timestamps in javascript (I tied it to underscore for convenience), any remark? _.toDate = function(epoch, format, locale) { var date = new Date(epoch), ...
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PHP DateTime increments, a neater / more efficient way?

I'm trying to get to grips with the DateTime class in PHP. Previously I've used date() and mktime() when playing with dates. Here's the head of a calendar table, and I'm pretty sure I'm doing this in ...
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Leap year algorithm?

I wrote two functions for determining leap years. ("Kabisat" means "leap year" in Indonesia.) def kabisat? y return false if y%4!=0 return true if y%100!=0 y%400==0 end ...
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Check if the shop is open or closed

The working hours are saved in Database like {"1" : "11:00 - 14:30", "2" : "17:30 - 23:00"} Now i wrote a function like, which test is the shop is opened or close at the moment. Can someone please ...
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Between dates : from highest -> current -> lowest

For example I have 2 dates (year and month) like : 2013-03 2013-01 <-- Jan. current month. 2012-10 So my code is : // Get current month and year $m = date('m'); $y = date('Y'); // So I do ...
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jQuery countdown - accuracy

I'm using this simple plugin to show a simple countdown in my pages, what I would like is to keep it more accurate, cause somentimes it seems it isn't accurate. This is the plugin: /* countdown is a ...
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compare two date time in dd/mm/yyyy formate [closed]

I have two dates in format of dd/mm/yyyy or dd/MM/yyyy. I want to compare both date but when I am using convert.todatetime(), its not giving me proper solution. There is any one have any idea about ...
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is my date difference calculation correct?

-(NSString *)calculateTimeDifference:(NSString *)timeStamp{ // get the current date NSDate *date = [NSDate date]; NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc]init]; [dateFormat ...
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PHP: multilingual Time::since() static class

I didn't make the math myself since I'm an idiot. I did however try to make it more versatile and usable for my multilingual page, which involves making it simple to use for advanced plural forms such ...
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converting timedate timezones with jodatime

I've been struggling to get to grips with JODATIME, but feel that I've finnaly managed to get a grip on some of the functionality that I need. I have written a function that will convert a DateTime ...
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How to improve a try on a dual Mode JavaScript textBox WaterMark?

I was just trying to make an alternate Ajax watermark from "insert date" (first mode) to "mm/dd/yyyy" (second mode). After some trial and error, I succefully implemented a solution using JavaScript. ...
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DateTimePrecise - current DateTime with millisecond precision

Answer in this question contains DateTimePrecise class that should return current date with millisecond precision. But class is pretty bug and complicated. So I wrote my own version which seems work ...
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Java Date formatter

The (real life) problem Following my question on SO, I found out that printing a Java Date() in a custom format is quite tedious: final Date date = new Date(); final String ISO_FORMAT = ...
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Most elegant way to round a date to a dynamic unit of time, using only JDK 6

Question originally posted on stackoverflow here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10720002/most-elegant-way-to-round-a-date-to-a-dynamic-unit-of-time-using-only-jdk-6 I'm trying to do an elegant ...
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Getting Current Time with Milliseconds (C++)

I am looking for a more efficient or shorter way to achieve the following output using the following code: timeval curTime; gettimeofday(&curTime, NULL); int milli = curTime.tv_usec / 1000; ...
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Time (only) class

Working in C++ and I have some code which I'm refactoring. I have some code that needs to work with times of day but not dates. I do some juggling with time_t and struct tm but it's a pain and not ...
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Format a datetime like this “20120319”

Im working with some strange api's that requires the dates to be sent in YYYYMMDD format I was thinking to do something like this string date = string.Concat(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month, ...