datetime

How to get the current date/time in Java

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It depends on what form of date / time you want: If you want the date / time as a single numeric value, then System.currentTimeMillis() gives you that, expressed as the number of milliseconds after the UNIX epoch (as a Java long). This value is a delta from a UTC time-point, and is independent of the local time-zone1. … Read more

Conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value in SQL query

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Try ISDATE() function in SQL Server. If 1, select valid date. If 0 selects invalid dates. Click here to view result EDIT : As per your update i need to extract the date only and remove the time, then you could simply use the inner CONVERT or EDIT 2 : The major reason for the error will be in your … Read more

What’s the difference between ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 Date Formats?

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Is one just an extension? Pretty much, yes – RFC 3339 is listed as a profile of ISO 8601. Most notably RFC 3339 specifies a complete representation of date and time (only fractional seconds are optional). The RFC also has some small, subtle differences. For example truncated representations of years with only two digits are not allowed … Read more

Compare two dates with JavaScript

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The Date object will do what you want – construct one for each date, then compare them using the >, <, <= or >=. The ==, !=, ===, and !== operators require you to use date.getTime() as in to be clear just checking for equality directly with the date objects won’t work I suggest you use drop-downs or some similar constrained form of date entry rather than text boxes, … Read more

Converting string into datetime

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datetime.strptime is the main routine for parsing strings into datetimes. It can handle all sorts of formats, with the format determined by a format string you give it: The resulting datetime object is timezone-naive. Links: Python documentation for strptime: Python 2, Python 3 Python documentation for strptime/strftime format strings: Python 2, Python 3 strftime.org is also a really nice reference for strftime Notes: strptime = “string parse … Read more