A period of time is an interval, a span of time. You can also use it for questions related to the actual punctuation mark.
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PowerShell "Period" usage?
Could someone explain what the PS period is used for?
I have found it being used in a few different ways. I didn't know if it was just situational or if I'm just understanding it wrong.
$a = $a.Replace(" Scripting Guys", "")
Here is just an example…

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Aggregating Over Actual Year in SAS
Lets suppose we have the following table ("Purchases"):
Date Units_Sold Brand Year
18/03/2010 5 A 2010
12/04/2010 2 A 2010
22/05/2010…

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Fourier series of time domain data
I spent couple days trying to solve this problem, but no luck so I turn to you. I have file for a photometry of a star with time and amplitude data. I'm supposed to use this data to find period changes. I used Lomb-Scargle from pysca library, but I…

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Teradata date difference
Hi i have used the following query for finding date difference ,but i am getting one hour difference between source and target, but when i checked manually for the dates in excel value is matching.
select a.CASE_ID as…

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Grails - Get next/previous TimeZone
I'm working with a Grails application and I can't find a clear way to translate a date from one TimeZone to the next/previous TimeZone available (I will define what I consider the next/previous Timezone below).
The facts:
I'm working with date…

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Check if time (startdate & enddate) cuts a time period
How can I check if a given startdate & enddate cuts a specific time period (train time).
I did following:
if ((startdate >= train.getStartDate()) &&
(enddate <= train.getEndDate())) {
// doSomething();
}
doSomething() get only executed, when…

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Calculate time period in multiple units in Swift
I want to calculate the diff between two dates (for example '11 oct 2015' and '23 dec 2015') in multiple units in Swift. For these dates the result i want to achieve should be something like '2 months, 11 days'
In java using joda-time library i can…

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Php Split date in time intervals
I need to express a past date to now difference in a human readable format (e.g. 1day 2hours 1minute etc..).
Here my try:

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mac os x define a daemon working period by property list
Actually, I am quite new in Mac OS X launchd property list.
I am planning to deploy a unix daemon program to serve my customers in only their office hours. For example 7:00 AM - 9:00PM.
Is there any possible only use one property list ***.plist…

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Changing easing parameters
I have a tweening function to animate the camera angle using "Easing.Elastic.Out". How do I change the Period and Amplitude of the easing?
camera.lookAt(scene);
var controls = new THREE.OrbitControls(camera, renderer.domElement);
function…

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How to implement pay rent system with Joda money and time
@Override
public org.joda.money.Money computeCharge(org.joda.time.DateTime from,
org.joda.time.DateTime to){
}
Description copied from interface: Parkable
Compute the cost of parking in this lot between these…

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Overriding a sent cookie
How do browsers act when the HTTP response contains two Set-cookie headers, and only expires and Max-Age are different between the two (same name, value, domain and path etc..)?
I need to extend session lifetime. The system calls setcookie with the…

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JodaTime unable to normalize PeriodType
So I have 2 date pickers for a start and end time, which give back a DateTime.
I need to calculate the duration between these two times in the format of "hours hr mins hr", so for example, "1 hr 30 mins".
If there is a day difference, it will…

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Rails DELETE putting a period before :id
I'm making a simple calorie counter, using http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html as a reference. I'm trying to add a Delete button, but every time I try to run it, I hit an error:
No route matches [DELETE] "/calorieinput.1"
I know the…

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Daily schedule as an index in Pandas
I want to represent a daily schedule, given originally as a CSV file, as a Pandas DataFrame. The key to each row in the schedule is an hourly range in a day. The ranges are not overlapping. For example:
00:00, 01:00, some data
01:00, 03:00, some…

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