Re: Difficulty in importing dates and times with functions
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- Subject: [mg94407] Re: [mg94380] Difficulty in importing dates and times with functions
- From: Carl Woll <carlw at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:54:25 -0500 (EST)
- References: <200812110847.DAA01292@smc.vnet.net>
ADL wrote:
>Dear group, I have a difficulty in interpreting dates and times with
>functions like AbsoluteTime.
>
>When a date string is in the format that Mathematica understands
>automatically, the fractions of second are appropriately read:
>
>In:= AbsoluteTime["2008/12/01 12:34:56.454"]
>Out= 3.43712369645400000000000*10^9
>
>Instead, when the format has to be specifies, the fractions of second
>are ignored and I could not find a way to prevent this:
>
>In:= AbsoluteTime[{"2008-12-01 12.34.56.454", {"Year", "Month",
>"Day", "Hour", "Minute", "Second"} }]
>Out= 3437123696
>
>This happens both in versions 6 and 7 for Windows. Does anyone know
>how to make this work ?
>
>Moreover, date importing functions appear to me very slow and very
>clumsy in their syntax. Does know anyone about something better which
>can be applied?
>
>Regards
>
>Al
>
>
Use "SecondExact" instead of "Second".
Carl Woll
Wolfram Research
- References:
- Difficulty in importing dates and times with functions like
- From: ADL <alberto.dilullo@tiscali.it>
- Difficulty in importing dates and times with functions like