Comments on: The Perfect Timestamp http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/ A chess-playing machine of the late 18th century, promoted as an automaton but later proved a hoax. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:56:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: linoj http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-584 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:22:05 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-584 Your post inspired me to think of my own holy grail of timestamps. It's a bit different from yours :)
http://www.vaporbase.com/postings/My_timestamp_ho…

]]> By: Trevor http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-583 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:39:26 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-583 Jason, you can check out the app I mentioned (El Dorado) to see how I'm supporting timezones. I'm pretty sure I'm not doing everything 100% right, but I think it's pretty good for a first try.

http://eldorado.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/app/help…

I removed the stuff dealing with timezones from this post to simplify things. I figure when you're saving times, you should save them at UTC, and when you're displaying them, you adjust them and display them to be the user's local time without displaying the timezone information.

]]> By: Jason Frankovitz http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-582 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:14:46 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-582 This is a great effort and addresses a problem I've been thinking about for a long time. I don't see anything about timezone support though – is that a deliberate omission? 3:15 pm in LA is not 3:15pm in Madagascar :)

]]> By: mikkel http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-581 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:35:33 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-581 am/pm means crap to me, we are running 24 hour clocks in my part of the world…

]]> By: Alex http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-580 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:09:34 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-580 @RSL:

If you did want periods in your ams and pms, you could put something like:

class Time # or DateTime

alias strftime old_strftime

def strftime(format)

self.old_strftime(format).gsub(/([ap])(m)/i, '1.2.')

end

end

in your environment.rb.

Alex

]]> By: Trevor http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-579 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:41:45 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-579 I think you're right, actually, but I hate the way it looks with periods in there.

Another thing I should have mentioned – what's up with there being no way to get rid of leading zeros in the hour? That's why I'm doing the %I.to_i.to_s thing, which seems to be a pretty decent solution.

]]> By: RSL http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-578 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:07:44 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2007/07/29/the-perfect-timestamp/#comment-578 "For example, AM and PM always come out in ALL CAPS. What’s the deal with that?"

Indeed, what _is_ with that. Your solution is sooooo close but according to most of the style guides I've found online [ http://www.google.com/search?q=am+pm+capitalized ] am/pm should contain periods like a.m./p.m. Yes, it's more than a hair pedantic but what's the point of this code if not to get things _right_?

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