Questions tagged [date]
A date is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system, and consists of year, month and day. Use for questions about creating, manipulating and storing date information. Use with any relevant language tags.
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Why is subtracting these two epoch-milli Times (in year 1927) giving a strange result?
If I run the following program, which parses two date strings referencing times 1 second apart and compares them:
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
SimpleDateFormat sf ...
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How do I format a date in JavaScript?
How do I format a Javascript Date object as a string? (Preferably in the format: 10-Aug-2010)
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Compare two dates with JavaScript
Can someone suggest a way to compare the values of two dates greater than, less than, and not in the past using JavaScript? The values will be coming from text boxes.
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How to return only the Date from a SQL Server DateTime datatype
SELECT GETDATE()
Returns: 2008-09-22 15:24:13.790
I want that date part without the time part: 2008-09-22 00:00:00.000
How can I get that?
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Detecting an "invalid date" Date instance in JavaScript
I'd like to tell the difference between valid and invalid date objects in JS, but couldn't figure out how:
var d = new Date("foo");
console.log(d.toString()); // shows 'Invalid Date'
console.log(...
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How to add days to Date?
How to add days to current Date using JavaScript? Does JavaScript have a built in function like .NET's AddDay()?
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Convert a Unix timestamp to time in JavaScript
I am storing time in a MySQL database as a Unix timestamp and that gets sent to some JavaScript code. How would I get just the time out of it?
For example, in HH/MM/SS format.
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YYYY-MM-DD format date in shell script
I tried using $(date) in my bash shell script, however, I want the date in YYYY-MM-DD format.
How do I get this?
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Where can I find documentation on formatting a date in JavaScript?
I noticed that JavaScript's new Date() function is very smart in accepting dates in several formats.
Xmas95 = new Date("25 Dec, 1995 23:15:00")
Xmas95 = new Date("2009 06 12,12:52:39")
Xmas95 = new ...
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How to calculate difference between two dates (number of days)?
How can one calculate the number of days between two dates in C#?
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How to get current time and date in Android
How can I get the current time and date in an Android app?
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Sort ArrayList of custom Objects by property
I read about sorting ArrayLists using a Comparator but in all of the examples people used compareTo which according to some research is a method for Strings.
I wanted to sort an ArrayList of custom ...
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Format JavaScript date as yyyy-mm-dd
I have a date with the format Sun May 11,2014. How can I convert it to 2014-05-11 using JavaScript?
function taskDate(dateMilli) {
var d = (new Date(dateMilli) + '').split(' ');
d[2] = ...
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