Browsing Questions About time (2)

I've come across a few different applications that monitor my usage while on the computer, but what have you used, and like? whether it be writing down your activities in a composition notbook or install an app that reports silently to a server? what do you like?

I am running a small office for a while and need to do some scheduling. Employees have widely varying availability (part time environment), and there are certain times of the day where I need certain numbers of people there. I also want to impose constraints as far as how many hours each person wo…

Is there any way to parse a string in the format HH:MM into a Date (or other) object using the standard libraries? I know that I can parse something like "9/17/2008 10:30" into a Date object using var date:Date = new Date(Date.parse("9/17/2008 10:30"); But I want to parse just 10:30 by i…

How do i measure how long a client has to wait for a request. On the server side it is easy, through a filter for example. But if we want to take into accout the total time including latency and data transfer, it gets diffcult. is it possible to access the underlying socket to see when the r…

This is probably too much to ask, but is there any language that does a really terrific job of representing time and date operations? I'll grant straight away that it's really hard to write a truly great time library. That said, are there any widespread languages that have one? Basically, I want s…

I've implemented a stopwatch that works fine without considering that bank holidays and weekends shouldn't be counted in the total duration. I was looking for some open-source library where I could get the elapsed time, passing a start instant, end instant and a set of bank holidays (weekends aren…

In Python for the *nix, does time.sleep() block the thread or the process?

I am building a quiz and i need to calculate the total time taken to do the quiz. and i need to display the time taken in HH::MM::SS..any pointers?

Given a date/time as an array of (year, month, day, hour, minute, second), how would you convert it to epoch time, i.e., the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT? Bonus question: If given the date/time as a string, how would you first parse it into the (y,m,d,h,m,s) array?

If I've got a time_t value from gettimeofday() or compatible in a Unix environment (e.g., Linux, BSD), is there a compact algorithm available that would be able to tell me the corresponding week number within the month? Ideally the return value would work in similar to the way %W behaves in str…

Given a datetime.time value in Python, is there a standard way to add an integer number of seconds to it, so that 11:34:59 + 3 = 11:35:02 , for example? These obvious ideas don't work: >>> datetime.time(11, 34, 59) + 3 TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'datetime.time' and 'int' >…

I'm trying to decide on the best way to store event times in a MySQL database. These should be as flexible as possible and be able to represent "single events" (starts at a certain time, does not necessarily need an end time), "all day" and "multi day" events, repeating events, repeating all day e…

I have created a C# class file by using a XSD-file as an input. One of my properties look like this: private System.DateTime timeField; [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(DataType="time")] public System.DateTime Time { get { return this.timeField; } set { this.…

I have an application where an user has to remember and insert an unix timestamp like 1221931027. In order to make it easier to remember the key I like to reduce the number of characters to insert through allowing the caracters [a-z]. So I'm searching for an algorithm to convert the timstamp to a …

I am looking to convert a mysql timestamp to a epoch time in seconds using php, and vice versa. What's the cleanest way to do this?