• _stranger_@lemmy.world
    321·
    12 days ago

    Ok, everyone who’s ever had to use datetime hates it, but not because it’s insufficient, but because international date/time is such a nightmare that the library must be complicated enough to support all the edge cases I’m convinced that library has a function for traveling trough time.

    For years I’ve wrapped datetime with custom functions that do exactly and only what I want to mitigate its all-plumbing-zero-porcelain approach to the problem.

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
      7·
      12 days ago

      Complicated or not, the interfaces suck. And dont have to. And that’s the problem.

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        This is exactly why I love PowerShell.

        Need the [DateTime] object from 10 years ago? No biggie, just chuck (Get-Date).AddYears(-10) down your console.

        Need it in a specific timezone? That one’s trickier, but since PowerShell can do .Net, run this:

        $TargetDateTime = (Get-Date).AddYears(-10)
$TargetTimeZone = "India Standard Time"
$tz = [TimeZoneInfo]::FindSystemTimeZoneById($TargetTimeZone)
$utcOffset = $tz.GetUtcOffset($TargetDateTime)
[DateTimeOffset]::new($TargetDateTime.Ticks, $utcOffset)

        And you get a DateTimeOffset object, which is this beauty:

        DateTime           : 25/08/2015 23:15:14
UtcDateTime        : 25/08/2015 17:45:14
LocalDateTime      : 25/08/2015 19:45:14
Date               : 25/08/2015 00:00:00
Day                : 25
DayOfWeek          : Tuesday
DayOfYear          : 237
Hour               : 23
Millisecond        : 421
Microsecond        : 428
Nanosecond         : 600
Minute             : 15
Month              : 8
Offset             : 05:30:00
TotalOffsetMinutes : 330
Second             : 14
Ticks              : 635761413144214286
UtcTicks           : 635761215144214286
TimeOfDay          : 23:15:14.4214286
Year               : 2015

        DateTime is the time in your target timezone, UtcDateTime is, well, the UTC time, and LocalDateTime is the time on host you ran the commands on.