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#365185 - 30/10/2015 20:44 What is this date format called? Standard format string for it?
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31565 Loc: Seattle, WA	My C# program must communicate with a REST API which wants me to supply dates in a format that looks something like this: Code: Some examples that work: 20151001T170952%2B1000 20130305T170030+0400 Their documentation doesn't describe the format in detail. It essentially makes a circular statement: "for your date query to work on our REST API, make sure the date is in the format that our REST API uses". Or something like that. There's no link to exactly what this format means. It looks vaguely like ISO 8601, but when I tell C# to use ISO 8601 with the "o" format, I get something that looks different: Code: ISO 8601: 2015-10-20T13:40:59.4105922-07:00 I'm temporarily going to work around it by just specifying it directly with MM DD YY etc in the right place. But I'll be worried that's wrong, and that I'm missing something. Does anyone recognize exact precise date format? Do you know what it's called, ie, can you give it an exact canonical name that I can google for? Is there a precise format specifier for it? Thanks! _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#365186 - 31/10/2015 02:44 Re: What is this date format called? Standard format string for it? [Re: tfabris]
Shonky pooh-bah Registered: 12/01/2002 Posts: 2009 Loc: Brisbane, Australia	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3405335/parsing-a-teamcity-java-generated-timestamp-in-net I don't see any issue just manually creating the string. I don't believe it's a standard format, but it shouldn't matter if it's defined properly and everything understands. Edit: It does appear to be part of ISO8601 "subject to agreement by communicating parties". See end of this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations Edited by Shonky (31/10/2015 02:47) _________________________ Christian #40104192 120Gb (no longer in my E36 M3, won't fit the E46 M3)
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#365187 - 31/10/2015 02:49 Re: What is this date format called? Standard format string for it? [Re: Shonky]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31565 Loc: Seattle, WA	Yeah, my code seems to be working OK by manually specifying the date string format. Thanks! _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#365191 - 31/10/2015 10:43 Re: What is this date format called? Standard format string for it? [Re: Shonky]
Roger carpal tunnel Registered: 18/01/2000 Posts: 5680 Loc: London, UK	Originally Posted By: Shonky http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3405335/parsing-a-teamcity-java-generated-timestamp-in-net Heh. _________________________ -- roger
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#365192 - 31/10/2015 12:36 Re: What is this date format called? Standard format string for it? [Re: tfabris]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14478 Loc: Canada	Too funny!
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#365193 - 31/10/2015 18:10 Re: What is this date format called? Standard format string for it? [Re: Roger]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31565 Loc: Seattle, WA	Okay, I didn't notice it was you the first time. That's hilarious. I think that might be the second or third time I've ended up searching for something on StackOverflow and finding an empegger in the results. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#365194 - 31/10/2015 18:11 Re: What is this date format called? Standard format string for it? [Re: Roger]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31565 Loc: Seattle, WA	How good are you with the Team City Rest API? Oh, and have you ever spent any time working with DotCover? I might want to ask you more specific questions. :-) _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#365220 - 05/11/2015 20:45 Re: What is this date format called? Standard format string for it? [Re: tfabris]
canuckInOR carpal tunnel Registered: 13/02/2002 Posts: 3212 Loc: Portland, OR	A little late to the party, but... Originally Posted By: tfabris It looks vaguely like ISO 8601 This doesn't just look vaguely like ISO 8601, it is ISO 8601, which specifies two formats -- a basic format (as above), and an extended format that uses separators for readability. The basic format only requires separators when necessary to remove ambiguity. For example, YYYY-MM requires the hyphen, even in the basic format. Originally Posted By: tfabris , but when I tell C# to use ISO 8601 with the "o" format, I get something that looks different: Code: ISO 8601: 2015-10-20T13:40:59.4105922-07:00 I'm temporarily going to work around it by just specifying it directly with MM DD YY etc in the right place. But I'll be worried that's wrong, and that I'm missing something. You won't be missing anything. If you read the docs for the "o" format, it says Originally Posted By: MSDN The "O" or "o" standard format specifier corresponds to the "yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss'.'fffffffK" custom format string for DateTime values and to the "yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss'.'fffffffzzz" custom format string for DateTimeOffset values. In this string, the pairs of single quotation marks that delimit individual characters, such as the hyphens, the colons, and the letter "T", indicate that the individual character is a literal that cannot be changed. You can use a custom format string that removes the separators and fractional seconds (you'll probably still want the TZ info, though), and still be ISO 8601 compliant.
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#365224 - 06/11/2015 04:58 Re: What is this date format called? Standard format string for it? [Re: canuckInOR]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31565 Loc: Seattle, WA	Awesome! Thank you! _________________________ Tony Fabris
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