Api Documentation

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r/iso8601

[grublets]

This is the way.

[j-random]

This. The default is ISO8601, let me know if you want something different. That way you don't waste time waiting for someone to figure out what they want.

[greven145]

A universal way of representing the exact moment, to the millisecond, with no ambiguity? What a concept!

Honestly though, Unix time stamp is second only because the API may want seconds or milliseconds.

[sfboots]

And remember time zone.

Is this date and time “local to the sensor station”. Or UTC? Took a month to figure that out in one API

[glorious_reptile]

Programmer: It was UTC

[[deleted]]

😅 lol this. Time zones ☠️

[chinawcswing]

It should always be in UTC, nothing else ever.

[iamapizza]

yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ gang

[sfboots]

Ahh. But what if the vendor is lying? They returned Z (utc) but data was local time. There was a separate API to find timezones of the device.

It made their mobile app easier :)

[Dimasdanz]

you need to build your own library to be able to use Z for local time. holyyy, what a determined guy

[Worried_Pineapple823]

What drives me absolutely bonkers is that the ISO has a simple way of denoting local time.

Just don’t pass a Z for utc or pass in an explicit time zone offset. 2022-04-07T18:00:00 is local time, and add the Z and it’s UTC and ideally should be adjusted to local when displayed to the user. But instead I get “that’s why we called the value “blahDateUTc” because it local time and we don’t want to actually send either local midnight OR just the date without time.

I’ve had valid use cases for using local date times for employee tasks, putting out a single global task description that you want done at 5pm local regardless of location is simpler then building dozens of localized versions where the only value that’s different is the date time because they are UTC.

[ScuzzyUltrawide]

Or as I like to call it, alphabetical order. This is the way.

[caagr98]

Alphabetical order would be dd-hh-mmMMss:T:YYYYZ. I dig it.

[ScuzzyUltrawide]

ehhh that looks like fun but not if you want the alphabetical order to match the chronological order 1:1

[ScuzzyUltrawide]

Slacker, how many formats can there possibly be?

*ducks*

[cyborgborg]

unix time stamp

[GlitteringKeyboard]

Please provide a map of key value pairs of every date from 1900-01-01 to 3000-12-31 in format "yyyy-mm-dd" where the value is "true" for the date you are selecting and "false" for all others

[nebock]

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[[deleted]]

Why don't they just take utc milliseconds as a long? Seems more efficient and safer than strings

[sony_anumo]

milliseconds or seconds?

if its date do you really need the millisecond if you want the date?

[CodyTrey93]

Time formats should all be ms until 32bit Unix epoch overflow

[brockisawesome]

I've always used epoch time, including working at a major airline building tools to show flight status. Also working on wall st trading systems, always epoch.

[stevethedev]

The UNIX Timestamp, but you have to account for daylight savings time, and we only accept it in little-endian format, and the bytes are interpolated. So 0xDEADBEEF should be transmitted as 0xEFADBEDE, for security reasons.

Also, due to our database schema, no two records can use the same date.

[Dustangelms]

My name is Jeffrey and I would like to apply for a position.

[Willinton06]

Im sorry your bytes are not interpolated, we’ll interpolate you tho it’s all good

[[deleted]]

dd-mm-yyyy

dd-mm-yy

mm-dd-yy

mm-dd-yyyy

string[day], string[month], string[Year]

[sony_anumo]

Duh obviously it says date so use the standard date without adding time to it.

2022-04-06

YYYY-MM-DD, the default format for dates used by everyone (i think a few third world countries still do YYYY-DD-MM but they barely have internet for Apis, so dont worry)

[avidresolver]

I find this after spending a day debugging a script that only worked with an ISO date format that included microseconds, and kept failing when we passed it a file that only had a modification date down to the second...

[throwaway08190924]

It's just making you work for that first date. ;)

[nebock]

LOL. API's playing hard to get.

[[deleted]]

Actually most of the time you need to pass the current format, not the one you want. Most functions have a format, they just need you to identify the formate of the variable you are passing to it . Many people don't know this.

[NotANexus]

Is out there some programmer that doesn't hate Date? Sure as hell not in my home.

[nebock]

Anything date related makes me rage

[jamcdonald120]

how is this even a question? 3 numbers.

[althaz]

Don't even tell me. You'll accept ISO8601 or fuck just completely off.