A period of time is an interval, a span of time. You can also use it for questions related to the actual punctuation mark.
Questions tagged [period]
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Pandas is a Timestamp within a Period
I have a timestamp
tstamp = pd.to_datetime('01/11/2017')
tstamp
->> Timestamp('2017-01-11 00:00:00')
and I have a period
per = pd.Period('01/03/2017', 'M')
per
->> Period('2017-01', 'M')
I want to know if my timestamp is within my period. Eg is…

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Joda-time Period doesn't seem to calculate days correctly
I am seeing some strange behavior around the Joda-time Period class -- specifically the days processing. In the following example code, I am specifying a period of 26 hours as milliseconds.
// 26 hour duration
long durationMillis = 26 * 3600 *…

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Joda-Time: Strange behavior for leap year in Period calculation
The result of Period for the following 2 cases (starting from 2016 Feb 28/29 to 2017 Mar 1) are same as each other.
Could you please help to explain this strange behavior?
Case 1: 2016 Feb 28 to 2017 Mar 1
Calendar start1 =…

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What does perf record -P do?
I have tried the command perf record and then perf record -P, which is supposed to allow me to specify the sample period, but it does not work. The result of perf record -P is the same as the one obtained from perf record.
So what does perf record…

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Haskell: Execute IO action only if a certain time has passed since it's last execution
I have a media stream with associated named pipe to it. The program reads data from pipe and processes frames with processFrame.
module Main where
import Codec.FFmpeg
import Codec.FFmpeg.Decode
import Control.Monad.Except (runExceptT)
main :: IO…

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Iphone accelerometer sampling frequency
Some applications are available for measuring frequencies of alternating currents up to 200 Hz using magnetometers and designed for iPhones.
I collected data from Iphone 5s magnetometers and the minimum average value of the acquisition period I…

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How to create a delay for a command in c#?
I want to insert delay for changing color of button for 2000 milisecond in my game App in c# ... what command should I use for it ?? ( I want to changes color of button for 2 sec and then come back to normal state ) thank you
switch…

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Joda Period not converting all minutes to hours "8h, 132m"
I am storing two DateTimes (Joda) in an object and then I get a Period from the object by new Period(dateTime1, dateTime2).
I then want to add all the periods from different objects together.
I am both adding all the periods together in a variable…

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Display relative time with one number with Joda time [Java]
So I'm using Joda time and want it to display only one number (I know how to handle pluralisation in Joda, just a quick example at the end).
Example:
2 years 2 months 2 weeks ago should just show 2 years ago
2 days 2 hours 2 minutes ago should just…

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Jodatime Period to Jadira Usertype PersistentPeriodAsString. Giving custom format?
I need to store delta time I'm receiving in the format: yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm in database. For that I'm using Joda-Time Period class. Now, I've to do the mapping from Period to DB column. I'm using Hibernate Framework, and found out Jadira UserType…

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Creating a timer with CreateTimerQueueTimer, Visual Studio 2012 ,C++ , running periodically
I am trying to use CreateTimerQueueTimer(...) to run a function every so often.
I am using an example from MSDN and mainly this line concerns me :
CreateTimerQueueTimer( &hTimer, hTimerQueue,(WAITORTIMERCALLBACK)TimerRoutine, &arg , 50,100,…

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Codility Binary Period
This is a problem Codility exam, I think there must be a more efficient way to do it. (And also I know there is a way to convert Binary number directly without going through the BinaryString, but I dont know how).
This is the problem:
A non-empty…

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running with Java.exe when period exists in directory name
I am trying to run the java prog I've built, but I want to run it from a specific directory. When specifying the relative path to the class file I want to run, that path contains a directory with a period in it, and it seems to be tripping java up;…

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Calc period of function in R
There is any R packages for calculation period of some function? I am looking for r-function like this:
x <- seq(0, 50, by = 0.05)
y <- sin(x)
p <- calcPeriod(x, y) # result = 2pi

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What does a period with a name before a function mean when calling it in Arduino code (C/C++)?
What does a period with a name before a function mean when calling it in Arduino code (C/C++)?
For example, I am using an OLED display library and one function is called like this:
display.setTextSize(1);
I know what this function does, but what…

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