Hi All,

  Request out help on date formatting, I have code which output the date and time as below , i we need it without the last few numbers.,ie "YYYY-MMM-DD HH:MM:SI"

Output : 2017-Sep-06 16:06:42.7223837
Required Output : 2017-Sep-06 16:06:42

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Vino.B

On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 15:56:59 UTC, Vino wrote:
>   Request out help on date formatting, I have code which output the date and time as below , i we need it without the last few numbers.,ie "YYYY-MMM-DD HH:MM:SI"

Just slice it off. x[0 .. x.lastIndexOf("."];

On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 16:01:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 15:56:59 UTC, Vino wrote:
>>   Request out help on date formatting, I have code which output the date and time as below , i we need it without the last few numbers.,ie "YYYY-MMM-DD HH:MM:SI"
>
> Just slice it off. x[0 .. x.lastIndexOf("."];

Hi,

 I tried it but no luck, as the output is a function return in type SysTime.

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Vino.B

On 12/12/17 10:56 AM, Vino wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>    Request out help on date formatting, I have code which output the date and time as below , i we need it without the last few numbers.,ie "YYYY-MMM-DD HH:MM:SI"
> 
> Output : 2017-Sep-06 16:06:42.7223837
> Required Output : 2017-Sep-06 16:06:42
> 

You need to extract the date components and print them separately. There is no mechanism to format a SysTime (and it's a hairy subject to be sure, every locale is different).

-Steve

On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 15:56:59 Vino via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>    Request out help on date formatting, I have code which output
> the date and time as below , i we need it without the last few
> numbers.,ie "YYYY-MMM-DD HH:MM:SI"
>
> Output : 2017-Sep-06 16:06:42.7223837
> Required Output : 2017-Sep-06 16:06:42

If you want to strip off the fractional seconds, then just zero them out. e.g.

sysTime.fracSecs = Duration.zero;

The to*String functions of SysTime don't display trailing zeroes and don't display the decimal point if the fractional seconds are zero.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 15:56:59 UTC, Vino wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>   Request out help on date formatting, I have code which output the date and time as below , i we need it without the last few numbers.,ie "YYYY-MMM-DD HH:MM:SI"
>
> Output : 2017-Sep-06 16:06:42.7223837
> Required Output : 2017-Sep-06 16:06:42
>
> From,
> Vino.B

just playing with this...

// ----------

module test;

void main()
{
    import std.stdio;

    writeln( GetFmtDate() ); // e.g: 2017-Dec-13 13:30:23

}


string GetFmtDate()
{
    import std.datetime;
    import std.ascii : toUpper;
    import std.conv : to;
    import std.string : format;

    auto d = Clock.currTime();

    string fmtMonth = toUpper(to!string(d.month)[0]) ~
                              to!string(d.month)[1..$];

    return
            format("%04s-%s-%02s %02s:%02s:%02s",
                (d.year),
                fmtMonth,
                (d.day),
                (d.hour),
                (d.minute),
                (d.second)
                );
}

// --------------

On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 02:34:12 codephantom via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 15:56:59 UTC, Vino wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >   Request out help on date formatting, I have code which output
> >
> > the date and time as below , i we need it without the last few numbers.,ie "YYYY-MMM-DD HH:MM:SI"
> >
> > Output : 2017-Sep-06 16:06:42.7223837
> > Required Output : 2017-Sep-06 16:06:42
> >
> > From,
> > Vino.B
>
> just playing with this...
>
> // ----------
>
> module test;
>
> void main()
> {
>      import std.stdio;
>
>      writeln( GetFmtDate() ); // e.g: 2017-Dec-13 13:30:23
>
> }
>
>
> string GetFmtDate()
> {
>      import std.datetime;
>      import std.ascii : toUpper;
>      import std.conv : to;
>      import std.string : format;
>
>      auto d = Clock.currTime();
>
>      string fmtMonth = toUpper(to!string(d.month)[0]) ~
>                                to!string(d.month)[1..$];
>
>      return
>              format("%04s-%s-%02s %02s:%02s:%02s",
>                  (d.year),
>                  fmtMonth,
>                  (d.day),
>                  (d.hour),
>                  (d.minute),
>                  (d.second)
>                  );
> }
>
> // --------------

In general, you probably want to cast the SysTime to a DateTime if you're going to do something like that. There's a lot of duplicate work being done if you get each of those properties individually, whereas if you cast to DateTime, then it does the work once, and the properties for DateTime just return the correspending member variables. Sometimes, I think that putting year, month, etc. on SysTime was a mistake, because using thoes properties almost always the wrong thing to do given how much work is duplicated when using them, but at the same time, there are cases where the efficiency doesn't really matter and the simplicity of just grabbing the properties from SysTime is nice.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 at 07:35:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> In general, you probably want to cast the SysTime to a DateTime if you're going to do something like that.

yes, I would agree ;-)

Of course the intention was not really to just format it the same way as Clock.currTime() does it, but rather to provide a way to more easily customise the format, however one likes, whenever one likes..

e.g.the following small change to the format string would make it return: 20171213_1924_41

(that's more like something I'd use)

  return
            format("%04s%02s%02s_%02s%02s_%02s",
                (d.year),
                to!(int)(d.month),
                (d.day),
                (d.hour),
                (d.minute),
                (d.second)
                );

On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 at 08:32:34 UTC, codephantom wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 at 07:35:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> In general, you probably want to cast the SysTime to a DateTime if you're going to do something like that.
>
> yes, I would agree ;-)
>
> Of course the intention was not really to just format it the same way as Clock.currTime() does it, but rather to provide a way to more easily customise the format, however one likes, whenever one likes..
>
> e.g.the following small change to the format string would make it return: 20171213_1924_41
>
> (that's more like something I'd use)
>
>   return
>             format("%04s%02s%02s_%02s%02s_%02s",
>                 (d.year),
>                 to!(int)(d.month),
>                 (d.day),
>                 (d.hour),
>                 (d.minute),
>                 (d.second)
>                 );

Hi All,

 Request your help on below program on how to format or cast SysTime to DateTime

import std.algorithm: filter, map, sort;
import std.container.array;
import std.file: SpanMode, dirEntries, isDir ;
import std.stdio: writeln,writefln;
import std.typecons: Tuple, tuple;
import std.datetime.systime: SysTime;
void main () {
auto FFs =  ["C:\\Temp\\BACKUP", "C:\\Temp\\\EXPORT"];
Array!(Tuple!(string, SysTime)) Sorted;
foreach(d; FFs[]) {
auto dFiles = Array!(Tuple!(string, SysTime))(dirEntries(d, SpanMode.shallow).filter!(a => a.isDir).map!(a => tuple(a.name, a.timeCreated)));
foreach(i; dFiles[]){ Sorted ~= i; }
writefln("%(%-(%-63s %s %)\n%)", Sorted[].sort!((a,b) => a[1] < b[1]));
}
}

Output:
C:\Temp\BACKUP\DND3                                     2017-Sep-05 14:31:00.7037169
C:\Temp\BACKUP\DND5                                     2017-Sep-05 14:31:00.750517
C:\Temp\EXPORT\DND6                                     2017-Sep-05 14:31:00.8909172
C:\Temp\BACKUP\dir1                                     2017-Sep-06 16:06:42.7223837
C:\Temp\EXPORT\dir2                                     2017-Sep-06 16:06:43.1435864
C:\Temp\BACKUP\dir2                                     2017-Sep-09 22:44:11.7604069
C:\Temp\BACKUP\dir3                                     2017-Dec-10 06:56:07.5122231
C:\Temp\BACKUP\t1                                       2017-Dec-11 04:10:02.6413853

Required Output
C:\Temp\BACKUP\DND3                                     2017-Sep-05 14:31:00
C:\Temp\BACKUP\DND5                                     2017-Sep-05 14:31:00
C:\Temp\EXPORT\DND6                                     2017-Sep-05 14:31:00
C:\Temp\BACKUP\dir1                                     2017-Sep-06 16:06:42
C:\Temp\EXPORT\dir2                                     2017-Sep-06 16:06:43
C:\Temp\BACKUP\dir2                                     2017-Sep-09 22:44:11
C:\Temp\BACKUP\dir3                                     2017-Dec-10 06:56:07
C:\Temp\BACKUP\t1                                       2017-Dec-11 04:10:02

From,
Vino.B

On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 at 17:16:46 UTC, Vino wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 at 08:32:34 UTC, codephantom wrote:
>>                 [...]
>
> Hi All,
>
> [...]

Hi All, Thank you very much , was able to resolve the issue by changing the writefln line as below.

Sorted[].sort!((a,b) => a[1] > b[1]).each!(e => writefln!"%-63s %.20s"(e[0], e[1].to!string));

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Vino.B