Joi unix timestamp set max value - momentjs

I'm using Joi package to validate a timestamp field but How can I set a max() value on it, I want the input timestamp to be less than current time stamp
var schema = Joi.object().keys({
t: Joi.date().timestamp('unix').max(moment().unix()),
})
but I get the error that:
child "t" fails because ["t" must be less than or equal to "Sun Jan 18
1970 07:35:17 GMT+0330 (IRST)"]
I'm sure that the moment().unix() returns the current timestamp, but here it is casted to string.

It seems that max() and min() functions can do the trick but they only work if the threshold is specified in milliseconds.
t: Joi.date().timestamp('unix')
.max(moment().unix() * 1000)
.min(moment().subtract('42', 'weeks').unix() * 1000),

It doesn't look like Joi.date().max() accepts unix timestamps properly despite being able to specify in your schema that a unix timestamp is expected for incoming values.
If you need to use the current date in your schema you can pass the string 'now' instead of using the date. Or just make sure you enter the current date in format that .max() expects. I tried this using milliseconds and it seems to work as expected. I think Joi is using the default Date constructor under the hood to construct dates to compare which expects milliseconds.
var schema = Joi.object().keys({
t: Joi.date().timestamp('unix').max(moment().unix() * 1000)
});
From the docs on date.max()
Notes: 'now' can be passed in lieu of date so as to always compare relatively to the current date, allowing to explicitly ensure a date is either in the past or in the future.

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How to make a timezone aware datetime object
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I've got a datetime which has no timezone information. I'm now getting the timezone info and would like to add the timezone into the existed datetime instance, how can I do?
d = datetime.datetime.now()
tz = pytz.timezone('Asia/Taipei')
How to add the timezone info tz into datetime a
Use tz.localize(d) to localize the instance. From the documentation:
The first is to use the localize() method provided by the pytz library. This is used to localize a naive datetime (datetime with no timezone information):
>>> loc_dt = eastern.localize(datetime(2002, 10, 27, 6, 0, 0))
>>> print(loc_dt.strftime(fmt))
2002-10-27 06:00:00 EST-0500
If you don't use tz.localize(), but use datetime.replace(), chances are that a historical offset is used instead; tz.localize() will pick the right offset in effect for the given date. The US Eastern timezone DST start and end dates have changed over time, for example.
When you try to localize a datetime value that is ambiguous because it straddles the transition period from summer to winter time or vice-versa, the timezone will be consulted to see if the resulting datetime object should have .dst() return True or False. You can override the default for the timezone with the is_dst keyword argument for .localize():
dt = tz.localize(naive, is_dst=True)
or even switch off the choice altogether by setting is_dst=None. In that case, or in the rare cases there is no default set for a timezone, an ambiguous datetime value would lead to a AmbiguousTimeError exception being raised. The is_dst flag is only consulted for datetime values that are ambiguous and is ignored otherwise.
To go back the other way, turn a timezone-aware object back to a naive object, use .replace(tzinfo=None):
naivedt = awaredt.replace(tzinfo=None)
If you know that your original datetime was "measured" in the time zone you are trying to add to it, you could (but probably shouldn't) use replace rather than localize.
# d = datetime.datetime.now()
# tz = pytz.timezone('Asia/Taipei')
d = d.replace(tzinfo=tz)
I can imagine 2 times when this might make sense (the second one happened to me):
Your server locale is set to the incorrect time zone and you are trying to correct a datetime instance by making it aware of this incorrect timezone (and presumably later localizing it to the "correct" time zone so the values of now() match up to other times you are comparing it to (your watch, perhaps)
You want to "tag" a time instance (NOT a datetime) with a time zone (tzinfo) attribute so that attribute can be used later to form a full datetime instance.

Meaning of [Z] in format + string in Moment.js

I am wondering what this does:
newM = moment("2015-08-11T13:00:00.000000Z", "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.SSSS[Z]", true)
Specifically - the [Z] in the format string.
I am using a library (react-bootstrap-datetimepicker) which uses moment. This library (React component) takes a parameter 'format' which is used as the second parameter to moment
I can't see what the [Z] is doing. But I have to do this rather than just 'Z' to get the result I want when I format the moment object for display with this string: newM.format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSSZ').
EDIT:
to be clear: I understand that 'Z' will cause the datetime passed to be treated as UTC, as per the docs. But what is the significance of the square brackets - which are not in the docs.
For everyone who cares about consistency due to the missing Z at the end - try to add [Z] to your format.
Example: .format('YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss[Z]') so the result is: 2019-11-26T10:39:54Z
More detailed explanation you can find in this github issue.
Z does not cause the time to be treated as UTC when used in the format. It matches a timezone specifier:
Format: Z ZZ
Example: +12:00
Description: Offset from UTC as +-HH:mm, +-HHmm, or Z
And under the documentation for format:
To escape characters in format strings, you can wrap the characters in
square brackets.
By specifying Z in brackets, you are matching a literal Z, and thus the timezone is left at moment's default, which is the local timezone.
Unless you specify a time zone offset, parsing a string will create a
date in the current time zone.
If your time is really in UTC, this is probably not desired behavior. If you want to parse it as UTC but display it in local time, use Z and then call local() on the resulting moment object, so most likely what you want is:
// Parse with timezone specifier (which is UTC here) but convert to local time
newM = moment("2015-08-11T13:00:00.000000Z", "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.SSSSZ", true).local();

moment.js and deprecated warning. timestamp to moment date object

I've read thru various posts on here in regards to similiar issues but none have solved my problem.
I manipulate the moment.js date object, and then store it as timestamp.
BUT, when I try to read in that timestamp again, I get that deprecated warning.
""Deprecation warning: moment construction falls back to js Date. This is discouraged and will be removed in upcoming major release. Please refer to https://github.com/moment/moment/issues/1407 for more info."
I've tried toDate(), format(), moment(myTimeStamp, 'ddd, DD MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss ZZ'); --> all generate the warning...
So, for example, my timestamp will look like this:
const timestamp = '1458586740000'
when I read that back and try to parse out the month/day/year, then the hour/min am/pm, etc... I need to get that timestamp into a moment.js object. Nothing is working for me. Any ideas.
How can I get this timestamp: '1458586740000', into a moment.js object so I can extract date date from it as I need?
EDIT: this is how I am storing the timestamp. So I would need to retrieve it from this.
let timeStamp = Moment(state[_Date])
.add({ hour: state[AMPM] === 'PM'
? +state[Hour] + 12
: state[Hour] ,
minute: state[Min] }).format('x')
The X token indicates a unix timestamp in seconds, and the x token indicates a unix millisecond timestamp (offset).
You appear to have a millisecond timestamp, so you would make a moment out of it by doing the following:
var a = moment('1458586740000', 'x')
It works without ' as well:
var a = moment(1458586740000, 'x')
You can also not specify the x and it should work:
moment(1458586740000)
Because you have a unix offset (milliseconds), not a unix timestamp (seconds), moment.unix is not what you want.
Then you can do the following:
a.format()
"2016-03-21T13:59:00-05:00"
Or you can use any of the other formatting tokens listed here to output whatever result you would like: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/
Based on the code you presented, I think you may be having problems because your timestamp is stored as a string (in ''). Parsing as a string causes an invalid date error, because it attempts to match ISO 8601 format and fails. Specifying that 'x' token will cause it to assume unix offset and work correctly.

momentJS UTC versus specifying the timezone in the moment constructor

Does the below 2 syntaxes are same,
moment(1456261200367, 'H:mm:ss.SSS').utc().valueOf() //1456343786120
moment(1456261200367 +0000, 'H:mm:ss.SSS Z').valueOf() //1456325786120
but as you could see if both of them coverts the given value to UTC mode then why there is a difference in the output?
Also I would like to know how a.valueOf() and b.valueOf() are same, when a.format() and b.format() are different, because moment() (moment parses and displays in local time) is different from moment.utc() (displays a moment in UTC mode)
var a = moment();
var b = moment.utc();
a.format();
b.format();
a.valueOf();
b.valueOf();
In the first part, you're using it incorrectly. You've passed numeric input which would normally be interpreted as a unix timestamp, but then you've supplied a string-based format string so the number is converted to a string. The format string here is telling moment how the input is specified, but it doesn't match what you're actually parsing.
This doesn't error though, because by default moment's parser is in "forgiving" mode. You can read more about this in the docs.
The correct way to pass a timestamp into moment is with one of these:
moment(1456261200367)
moment(1456261200367).utc()
moment.utc(1456261200367)
The last two are equivalent, but the moment.utc(timestamp) form is prefered.
With any of those, all three will have the same .valueOf(), which is just the timestamp you started with. The difference is in the mode that the moment object is in. The first one is in local mode, reflecting the time zone of the computer where it's running, while the other two are in UTC mode.
This is evident when you format the output using the format function, as with other many other functions. I believe that answers your second question as well.

SELECT clause with a DATETIME column in Sybase 15

I'm trying to do a query like this on a table with a DATETIME column.
SELECT * FROM table WHERE the_date =
2011-03-06T15:53:34.890-05:00
I have the following as an string input from an external source:
2011-03-06T15:53:34.890-05:00
I need to perform a query on my database table and extract the row which contains this same date. In my database it gets stored as a DATETIME and looks like the following:
2011-03-06 15:53:34.89
I can probably manipulate the outside input slightly ( like strip off the -5:00 ). But I can't figure out how to do a simple select with the datetime column.
I found the convert function, and style 123 seems to match my needs but I can't get it to work. Here is the link to reference about style 123
http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.help.ase_15.0.blocks/html/blocks/blocks125.htm
I think that convert's slightly wrongly documented in that version of the docs.
Because this format always has century I think you only need use 23. Normally the 100 range for convert adds the century to the year format.
That format only goes down to seconds what's more.
If you want more you'll need to past together 2 x converts. That is, past a ymd part onto a convert(varchar, datetime-column, 14) and compare with your trimmed string. milliseconds comparison is likely to be a problem depending on where you got your big time string though because the Sybase binary stored form has a granularity of 300ms I think, so if your source string is from somewhere else it's not likely to compare. In other words - strip the milliseconds and compare as strings.
So maybe:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE convert(varchar,the_date,23) =
'2011-03-06T15:53:34'
But the convert on the column would prevent the use of an index, if that's a problem.
If you compare as datetimes then the convert is on the rhs - but you have to know what your milliseconds are in the_date. Then an index can be used.

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