I making a scheduling application and I am using iCalendar format. I am aware that I can use this code to get the free time slots from current calendar:
DateTime start = new DateTime();
DateTime end = new DateTime(start.getTime() + 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 7);
VFreeBusy request = new VFreeBusy(start, end, new Dur(0, 2, 0, 0));
VFreeBusy response = new VFreeBusy(request, myCalendar.getComponents());
And I get the following output from using this code on a couple of events in the calendar.
DTSTAMP:20140323T204423Z
DTSTART:20020202T040023Z
DTEND:20020203T040023Z
DURATION:PT45M
FREEBUSY;FBTYPE=FREE:20020202T040023Z/PT2H,20020202T070023Z/PT4H,20020202T120023Z/PT16H
END:VFREEBUSY
What I don't know is how to use that VFreeBusy object with those free time slots and actually get them out, so I can compare them and use them as dates and times.
I used response.getProperties().getProperty(Property.FREEBUSY) to get the part that I need, but I don't know how to parse all that String. If you have any other ways for me to get those time slots please advise.
Assuming that you are using ical4j. Once you get the property, you can cast it to a FreeBusy property which has a getPeriods() method.
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I want to store a Javascript Date() object in a spreadsheet with correct format according to spreadsheet's locale (SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSpreadsheetLocale()).
Is there a way to get the country specific (date and) time format string from the spreadsheet locale?
E.g. when locale is de_DE, time format string as hh:mm
but when locale is da_DK, time format string as hh.mm
Interesting as well how to get the countries currency format.
BTW when I have date and time in de_DE and than change to da_DK, dates are reformatted (23.01.2020 -> 23/01/2020) but times are not (it stays as 22:59). Is that an error in Spreadsheet?
Dates in JavaScript have the method toLocaleDateString, which return a string formatted according to the specified locale. But this doesn't seem to work in Apps Script.
If you're open to using an Apps Script Web App for this, you could use this toLocaleDateString in your client-side script (that is, in a script tag in your HTML).
If that's not the case, I think your best option would be to create the relationship between formats and locales yourself, because Apps Script doesn't have a built-in method to achieve that. You could, for example, use a switch statement that would check the locale, and then format the date accordingly with Utilities.formatDate, the tool Apps Script uses to format dates. It could be something along the following lines:
var locale = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSpreadsheetLocale();
var formattedDate;
switch (locale) {
case 'de_DE':
formattedDate = Utilities.formatDate(yourDate, yourTimeZone, "hh:mm");
break;
case 'da_DK':
formattedDate = Utilities.formatDate(yourDate, yourTimeZone, "hh.mm");
break;
// ...
}
return formattedDate;
Reference:
toLocateDateString
Apps Script Web Apps
Utilities.formatDate
I hope this is of any help.
Sorry for that, however I found a function that would be worth checking out, it's toLocaleDateString() and toLocaleTimeString (), they deliver the local date and time format.
Please check
Formato fechas JavaScript.
I did the test from Google Apps Script and it throws me the following
function pruebafecha() {
var d = new Date();
var n = d.toLocaleDateString();
var h = d.toLocaleTimeString();
Logger.log(n);
Logger.log(h);
}
This is the answer(Colombia):
[20-01-24 16:47:50:286 EST] 24 de enero de 2020
[20-01-24 16:47:50:287 EST] 16:47:50 EST
A JavaScript Date object includes date, time and timezone. When Google Apps Script pass a Date object to the spreadsheet using setValue() / setValues() the value is displayed according to the cell number formatting using the spreadsheet timezone.
If the cell formatting is set to Automatic by default the date will be displayed accordingly to the spreadsheet locale.
If you want to force the cell to display a date in an specific format use Class Range setNumberFormat / setNumberFormats
If you don't want to use the above methods and don't want to rely on the spreadsheet locale and automatic cell format then instead of passing a Date object pass the value as an string prepending it with an ' (apostrophe, single quote character) to prevent that that automatic data type parsing changes the value and it's format.
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Javascript in Google Sheets script: help using setNumberFormat
I don't know very well the configuration of the sheet you mention. However, I share a code that I use to print the date and time of data submission of a form.
var d = new Date();
var hour = d.getHours()-1;
var min = d.getMinutes();
var day = d.getDate();
var month = d.getMonth()+1;
var year = d.getFullYear();
if (month<10) {dia = day+"/"+"0"+month+"/"+year;}
else {dia = day+"/"+month+"/"+year;}
if (min<10){time = hour+":"+"0"+min;}
else {time = hour+":"+min;}
What I do in the code is to take the values of day, month and year, I add 1 to the value of month because it takes values [0:11] => [Jan, Dec].
Then I build the format I want from date and time, you can notice that I have 1 left to the hours, because when I did the tests I noticed that the time of the script was one hour above.
I use google translate, I hope it is understood.
I tried everything to get the current year/month/date/hour but it doesn't work. I always get data 1 hour behind. So if it's 17:00 in the Netherlands, I get 16:00. I have tried so many things, but I can't get this fixed.. is it a bug?
I Tried this:
string dateTimeNowPlusForecaseHour = DateTimeOffset.Now.ToLocalTime().AddHours(hour).ToString("yyyyMMddhh");
And this:
string dateTimeNowPlusForecaseHour = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToLocalTime().AddHours(hour).ToString("yyyyMMddhh");
And this:
string dateTimeNowPlusForecaseHour = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToLocalTime().AddHours(hour).ToString("yyyyMMddhh");
And this:
string dateTimeNowPlusForecaseHour = DateTimeOffset.Now.AddHours(hour).ToString("yyyyMMddhh");
And this:
public string GetForecastTime(int hour)
{
// Take amount of seconds elapsed since 1970
var amountOfSecondsElapsedSince1970 = new DateTimeOffset(DateTime.UtcNow).ToUnixTimeSeconds();
// Make a Datetime variable (1970 is the start)
System.DateTime dateTimeNowString = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, System.DateTimeKind.Utc);
// Add amountOfSecondsElapsedSince1970 to the date time starting at 1970, + the amount of hours (for each forecast so 0, 1, and 2)
dateTimeNowString = dateTimeNowString.AddSeconds(amountOfSecondsElapsedSince1970).AddHours(hour).ToLocalTime();
// This is the dateTime
string dateRealWeatherForecastTimee = dateTimeNowString.ToString("yyyyMMddhh");
return dateRealWeatherForecastTimee;
}
Nothing seems to work.
Update
I tried the following line on a new asp.net core console project (rather than the project I'm working on):
string dateTimeNowPlusForecaseHour = DateTime.Now.AddHours(hour).ToString("yyyyMMddhh");
That works! But why doesn't it work for the project I'm working on?
Update2.0:
When I view my timezone of the project, I get GMT which is wrong. When I create a new asp.net core console project and view the timezone, I get w. europe, which gives me the correct time... Why is the timezone wrong? Shouldn't that be correct automatically?
DateTime.Now returns the current time and day. The struct it returns
can be stored as a field or property in a class. We look into this
property and its implementation—where it accesses the operating system
for the current time.
string dateTimeNowPlusForecaseHour = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddHH");
This screenshot is taken from here. And I've used almost all of these, which means these are tested and should definitely work. If you still get incorrect hour, please check the time-zone of the server where you're hosting your application.
I'm going loopy....
I want a date, in date format, for example
21/06/2017 17:23:04 GDT
I stamp this on a document, but I then want to display it on my xpage as:
21/06/2017 17:23
But I keep getting different results no matter what I do. I get the date from the onClick of a button using
var dt = new Date();
I then pass this into a function:
function AddObjectivesHistoryItem(doc, dt, action, username){
var ArrDocHistory:array = doc.getItemValueArray("History");
if(ArrDocHistory.length < 1){
// This should always return an object as it is created when an objectives document is first
// created but do this check to be safe and create an array if for some reason it doesnt exist
ArrDocHistory = [dt+"|"+action+"|"+username];
}else{
// append new value to the array
ArrDocHistory.push(dt+"|"+action+"|"+username);
}
doc.replaceItemValue("History",ArrDocHistory);
doc.replaceItemValue("LastUpdatedByName",username);
doc.replaceItemValue("LastUpdatedDate",dt);
}
I've tried using toLocaleString() and all others it seems but it wont work.
For example, toLocaleString() displays as 13-Mar-2018 15:02:15 on my xpage. It's close to what I want except it uses hyphens instead of slashes, and also displays the seconds.
I've tried using custom date pattern on my date field properties with no luck and I'm certain I'm missing something super obvious!?
Any pointers on how to firstly get the date like 21/06/2017 17:23:04 GDT and store as a date and secondly to then display it as 21/06/2017 17:23, this can be a string if it needs to be.
Thanks
You can get your date value as String in SSJS with:
var dateTimeFormat = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy kk:mm");
var dateTimeString = dateTimeFormat.format(dt)));
If you want to store as text, java.text.SimpleDateFormat is best for converting a date server-side to a specific text format. It can also be used in a converter to manipulate to/from as well.
I'm using google calendar api v3, for an calendar integration project and I've succeeded in creating calendars, events and even EventReminder. But I'm facing a little issue.
I created an EventReminder using this source code :
Event e = new Event();
int reminderMinutes = 1;
EventReminder reminder = new EventReminder();
reminder.setMinutes(reminderMinutes);
reminder.setMethod("popup");
List<EventReminder> l = new ArrayList<EventReminder>();
l.add(reminder);
e.setReminders(new Reminders().setOverrides(l));
e.getReminders().setUseDefault(false);
And now I am wondering if it is possible somehow to create an EventReminder using days instead of minutes, without converting it into minutes (like 1 day is 1440 minutes).
Thank you for your help.
There is no special method for setting reminder in days, only you could do is using the setMinutes method or what you could do is that you may create a custom method of your own, for converting days into minutes likeint minutes;public int getMinutes(int days){minutes = days * 24 * 60;retutn minutes;}and you may use it as following,
EventReminder reminder = new EventReminder();
reminder.setMinutes(getMinutes(1));
Personally, I know just enough Linq to be dangerous.
The task at hand is; I need to query the DAL and return a list of objects based on a date range. Sounds simple enough, however the date is a string, and for some reason it needs to stay a string.
I spent some time with this a while ago and got a solution working but I am iterating through a list of objects and selecting individual records by date one at a time, this is badddd! If the date range spans more than a few days its slow and I don't like it, and I've even busted a few of the Sr devs around here for doing iterative queries, so I definitely don't want to be a hypocrite.
Here is the crappy iteration way... each date pegs the database, which I hate doing.
- This works
DateTime start = Convert.ToDateTime(RecipientSearch.TransplantSearchStartDate);
DateTime end = Convert.ToDateTime(RecipientSearch.TransplantSearchEndDate);
var tempselectQuery = selectQuery;
while (start <= end)
{
tempselectQuery = selectQuery;
string sStart = Convert.ToDateTime(start).ToString(ResourceFormatting.DateOnly);
tempselectQuery = (ObjectQuery<DAL.Recipients>)tempselectQuery.Where(item => item.TransplantDate == sStart);
if (tempselectQuery.Count() != 0) TXPlistQueryDAL.AddRange(tempselectQuery.ToList());
start = start.AddDays(1);
}
Here is my attempt at trying to get my query to work in one db call
- This does not work... yet
DateTime start = Convert.ToDateTime(RecipientSearch.TransplantSearchStartDate);
DateTime end = Convert.ToDateTime(RecipientSearch.TransplantSearchEndDate);
List<string> sdates = new List<string>();
// Put my date strings in a list so I can then do a contains in my LINQ statement
// Date format is "11/29/2011"
while (start <= end)
{
string sStart = Convert.ToDateTime(start).ToString(ResourceFormatting.DateOnly);
sdates.Add(sStart);
start = start.AddDays(1);
}
// Below is where I get hung up, to do a .contains i need to pass in string, however x.TransplantDate
// includes time, so i am converting the string to a date, then using the EntityFunction to Truncate
// the time off, then i'd like to end up with a string, hence the .ToString, but, linq to entities
// thinks this is part of the sql query and bombs out... This is where I'm stumped on what to do next.
selectQuery =
(ObjectQuery<DAL.Recipients>)
from x in entities.Recipients
where sdates.Contains(EntityFunctions.TruncateTime(Convert.ToDateTime(x.TransplantDate)).ToString())
select x;
The error i get as follows:
I understand why I get the error, but I don't know the proper LINQ code to be able to acheive what I am trying to do. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Ughh I feel dumb. I tried a bunch of tricky little things to get x.TransplantDate to just a date only string within my Linq query, E.G. 10/15/2011
where sdates.Contains(EntityFunctions.TruncateTime(Convert.ToDateTime(x.TransplantDate)).ToString())
Turns out it already is in the correct format in the database, and if i simplify it down to just
where sdates.Contains(x.TransplantDate) It works. The reason I wasnt getting any records returned was because I was testing date ranges that didnt have any data for those specific dates... UGHH.
So in conclusion this ended up working fine. And if anyone is doing something similar maybe you can learn from this example.
DateTime start = Convert.ToDateTime(RecipientSearch.TransplantSearchStartDate);
DateTime end = Convert.ToDateTime(RecipientSearch.TransplantSearchEndDate);
List<string> sdates = new List<string>();
while (start <= end)
{
string sStart = Convert.ToDateTime(start).ToString(ResourceFormatting.DateOnly);
sdates.Add(sStart);
start = start.AddDays(1);
}
selectQuery =
(ObjectQuery<DAL.Recipients>)
from x in entities.Recipients
where sdates.Contains(x.TransplantDate)
select x;