Date-parsing refers to programming logic which reads one or more parameters, attempts to match it to a supported or specified date format, then returns the resulting Date if successful.
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Javascript Date.parse method not working correctly
I am using a method to check if a date is valid or not in my application
myApp.isValidDate = function(date) {
var timestamp;
timestamp = Date.parse(date);
if (isNaN(timestamp) === false) {
return true;
}
return false;
};
It works…
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Smart date interpretation
I can't remember which application I was using, but I do recall it having really neat date parsing/interpretation.
For example, you could type in 'two days ago' or 'tomorrow' and it would understand.
Any libraries to suggest? Bonus points if usable…
carrier
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Is there a Spring Boot flag to disable lenient Jackson parsing of LocalDate values with times?
Spring Boot defaults allow both dates and datetime values in LocalDate.
E.g. for following DTO:
public class Person {
private LocalDate birthDate;
//getter & setters
}
Both of the following are acceptable:
{
"birthDate" : "2021-07-24"
}
{
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SGB
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Native method to inverse Date.toLocaleString convertion in JavaScript?
We have date converted to locale string. For example:
x = (new Date()).toLocaleString()
and x has value
"20.05.2018, 10:21:37"
How to process this string to Date object.
I was tried
new Date(x)
Invalid Date
and
Date.parse(x)
NaN
It is possible…
Daniel
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Best way to parse dates in Northern European format (first DMY, then YMD) using Python
I am looking for a way to parse dates of unknown formats using the following "meta-formats" in order of preference:
day-month-year (DMY)
year-month-day (YMD)
potentially other formats (but thats not important)
This is the actual meta-formats…
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Parsing with Java 8 DateTimeFormatter and Spanish month names
With the 'old', pre-Java 8 SimpleDateFormat I can do:
new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MMM yyyy", new java.util.Locale("es", "ES")).parse("Mayo 2017")
to get the Date object of a date with Spanish month names.
How can I achieve the same with Java 8…
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Java date format for 00 days/months
I have a date as String, but sometimes it doesn't have valid day or month (the values are zeros, 00).
Example:
String value = "03082017";
Then I do:
String day = value.substring(0,2);
String month = value.substring(2,4);
String year =…
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How to differentiate when "second field" is missing in LocalDateTime
I am given LocalDateTime object created from String. I want to check whether that original string has "seconds" parameter or not.
My two inputs are:
String a = "2016-06-22T10:01"; //not given
String b = "2016-06-22T10:01:00"; //not…
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C++ parsing YYMMDD ISO 8601 date string with std::get_time gives unexpected result?
I'm trying to parse a date formatted as YYMMDD. As a test, I've tried the following code:
#include
#include
#include
#include
int main(){
std::tm t = {};
std::istringstream ss("191203");
ss >>…
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How to parse a date string including Μαϊ (greek May) in Java
I cannot parse strings that contain dates, that include the short version of the month May in Greek (Μαϊ, which is in short for Μαΐου - note on the ϊ-ΐ difference).
For example:
25 Μαϊ 1989
24 Μαΐ 1967
won't parse, if I use the following…
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Lua Date Manipulation Loop
I'm attempting to run a batch script with two date values that I would like to adjust and then have the script run again. I would like to reference a lua script that will adjust those date values for me. I'm using lua simply because most of the…
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How can I determine which date format I've received?
In dealing with a wide variety of JSON data being sent from various clients date format standardization is a real problem.
I might get any of these:
2013-10-05
2-6-13
Mon, Jul 13 2013
Sometimes there's hours, minutes and seconds as well as time…
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Parsing String to Date without using SimpleDateFormat?
I am developing a spring application and in one of my controller i have following lines to parse from string to date and format the parsed date to required format. But again i need to parse back formatted string into date without using any…
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Parse a Python datetime string in Javascript
I need to parse a Python-generated datetime string into a Javascript Date object. I went the simplest route:
In Python:
dstring = str(mydate)
example dstring = '2012-05-16 19:20:35.243710-04:00'
In Javascript (with datejs library):
d = new…
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Why I can't parse this date format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ?
I'm trying to parse a string date to a date . My string date is : 2021-12-16T11:00:00.000Z.
I have the follwing code to parse it to a date object:
val stringDate = "2021-12-16T16:42:00.000Z"
val sdf =…
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