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Re: Audience / Separation of users?   -   Rubber Chicken Software Co.
  Fast Date Setup   -   Chip G.
   Re: Fast Date Setup   -   Norman Palardy
   Re: Fast Date Setup   -   Keith Bennett
   Re: Fast Date Setup   -   Chip G.
   Re: Fast Date Setup   -   Keith Bennett
   Re: Fast Date Setup   -   Chip G.
   Re: Fast Date Setup   -   Keith Bennett
   Re: Fast Date Setup   -   Kimball Larsen

Fast Date Setup
Date: 01.03.10 00:03 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:03:09 -0500)
From: Chip G.
What's the quickest way to setup a new date? Lets say I want to have 00:00 on 01/01/2001. I can do the following

> Dim d As Date
>
> d.hour l
> d.minute t
> d.second i
> d.month 1
> d.day u
> d.year 2001

The language reference says I can do the following

> Dim d As Date
>
> d.set(2001,1,1)

But that method doesn't appear to be valid (doesn't show up in the list). And if it did I'm concerned about what the time would be (it matters for the comparison I need to do). I'd like to know the fewest lines necessary to substantiate/construct the date with all those parameters.

Thanks.

Re: Fast Date Setup
Date: 01.03.10 06:03 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:03:26 -0700)
From: Norman Palardy

On 28-Feb-10, at 4:03 PM, Chip G. wrote:

> What's the quickest way to setup a new date? Lets say I want to have
> 00:00 on 01/01/2001. I can do the following
>
>> Dim d As Date
>>
>> d.hour
>> d.minute 6
>> d.second R
>> d.month =
>> d.day o
>> d.year n001
>
> The language reference says I can do the following
>
>> Dim d As Date
>>
>> d.set(2001,1,1)
>
> But that method doesn't appear to be valid (doesn't show up in the
> list). And if it did I'm concerned about what the time would be (it
> matters for the comparison I need to do). I'd like to know the
> fewest lines necessary to substantiate/construct the date with all
> those parameters.

It was valid for a beta build and made it into the docs
It is not correct though


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Re: Fast Date Setup
Date: 01.03.10 01:51 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:51:19 -0600)
From: Keith Bennett
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Re: Fast Date Setup
Date: 01.03.10 01:35 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:35:32 -0500)
From: Chip G.
It also only works if I'm creating a new date from scratch ... not each time looping through ...

On Feb 28, 2010, at 19:32, Keith Bennett wrote:

> The code I pasted worked just fine on REALbasic 2009r5.1; or rather,
> it compiled and displayed a messagebox just fine. I didn't read it to
> find out which field matches what part of the date.
>
> In any case, being that this is the constructor of the Date object and
> using integers, I'd certainly hope it's faster than parsing text
> through SQL (not to mention cleaner IMO).
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chip G. <<email address removed>> wrote:
>> One too many pieces of data. Near as I can figure it should be:
>>
>> Dim d as New Date (year, month, day, hour, minute, second)
>>
>> On Feb 28, 2010, at 18:42, Keith Bennett wrote:
>>
>>> This code should work:
>>>
>>> Dim d As New Date(2001,1,2,3,4,5,6)
>>>
>>> MsgBox(d.LongDate + " " + d.LongTime)
>>
>> --
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Re: Fast Date Setup
Date: 01.03.10 01:32 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:32:09 -0600)
From: Keith Bennett
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Re: Fast Date Setup
Date: 01.03.10 01:24 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:24:10 -0500)
From: Chip G.
One too many pieces of data. Near as I can figure it should be:

Dim d as New Date (year, month, day, hour, minute, second)

On Feb 28, 2010, at 18:42, Keith Bennett wrote:

> This code should work:
>
> Dim d As New Date(2001,1,2,3,4,5,6)
>
> MsgBox(d.LongDate + " " + d.LongTime)

Re: Fast Date Setup
Date: 01.03.10 00:42 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:42:27 -0600)
From: Keith Bennett
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Re: Fast Date Setup
Date: 01.03.10 00:37 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:37:55 -0700)
From: Kimball Larsen
You need to define "quickest". You allude to the fewest number of lines, which is like this:

dim d as new Date
d.SQLDateTime -2001-01-01 00:00:00"

But, I don't know how that compares with other methods for sheer execution speed. If you only care about how many lines of code, try the above. If you want to know how long that actually takes to construct a date with the time you need, you'll need to do some performance testing.

You may want to compare the assignment for sqlDateTime with that of totalSeconds for execution speed.

- Kimball
http://www.kimballlarsen.com

On Feb 28, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Chip G. wrote:

> What's the quickest way to setup a new date? Lets say I want to have 00:00 on 01/01/2001. I can do the following
>
>> Dim d As Date
>>
>> d.hour -
>> d.minute .
>> d.second c
>> d.month s
>> d.day C
>> d.year F001
>
> The language reference says I can do the following
>
>> Dim d As Date
>>
>> d.set(2001,1,1)
>
> But that method doesn't appear to be valid (doesn't show up in the list). And if it did I'm concerned about what the time would be (it matters for the comparison I need to do). I'd like to know the fewest lines necessary to substantiate/construct the date with all those parameters.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Chip
>
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