Re: Date & Time format..
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- Subject: [mg107574] Re: [mg107555] Date & Time format..
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:04:21 -0500 (EST)
- References: <27535250.1266408660520.JavaMail.root@n11>
The ambiguity is whether "11/4/2009" is the 11th day of the 4th month or the 4th day of the 11th month since this is used both ways. So if it is the way you want don't worry. You can use Quiet to suppress the messages. Otherwise you can give a more specific date string specification. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ From: graser [mailto:graser at gmail.com] Hi I have a list of date and time string such as.. AA = {"Start", "Time", "11/4/2009", "3:24:06.505", "PM"} I want to read "11/4/2009", "3:24:06.505", "PM" as date format.. so I did DateList["11/4/2009 3:24:06.505 PM"] and actually it gives me as {2009, 11, 4, 15, 24, 6.505} But there is also waring message like.. ** DateList::ambig: Warning: the interpretation of the string 11/4/2009 3:24:06.505 PM as a date is ambiguous. >> *** So I thought the problem was "PM" I tried it again with DateList[{"11/4/2009 3:24:06.505 PM", {"Day", "Month", "Year", "Hour", "Minute", "Second", "AMPM"}}] But it didn't work... Do you have any idea how to handle AMPM part? Thanks