I have this piece of code in our Informix stored procedure.
if (last_date + 2 units second) > CURRENT then
raise exception -746,0, "Please try later";
end if
I am struggling to understand what is happening here. The last_date is a DATETIME variable. Is it adding 2 seconds to last_date, or 2 days?
Could anybody explain what is happening here please?
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Can some break this down for me? In my mind 5 minutes squared is 25 minutes
irb(main):014:0> now = Time.now.utc
=> 2019-05-03 01:36:41 UTC
irb(main):015:0> now + (5.minutes ** 2)
=> 2019-05-04 02:36:41 UTC
There is no Numeric#minutes in ruby, that’s Rails monkeypatching everything.
Numeric#minutes is delegated to ActiveSupport::Duration#minutes which in turn constructs an ActiveSupport::Duratioon::Scalar instance, with an amount of seconds as a “number behind.” That number will be used in:
coercion that might be used in any arithmetics involving Numeric, amongst others.
That said, when foo.minutes meets the arithmetic operation with a Numeric as a RHO, it [using coercion] does the math using the number of seconds.
Even more, the comparison against Numeric would also work:
5.minutes == 300
#⇒ true
Hence my advise: never ever use these misleading monkeypatched crap. Use seconds explicitly to perform date/time operations.
I’m using Rails 4.2.4. I have the below method for converting a time (duration) to milliseconds …
Time.parse(convert_to_hrs(duration)).seconds_since_midnight * 1000
in which the method “convert_to_hrs” is defined as
def convert_to_hrs(string)
case string.count(':')
when 0
'00:00:' + string.rjust(2, '0')
when 1
'00:' + string
else
string
end
end
However, if the duration is something really big (e.g. “34:13:00” -- read: 34 hours, 13 minutes, and zero seconds), the above fails with the error
Error during processing: argument out of range
/Users/mikea/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.0/lib/ruby/2.3.0/time.rb:302:in `local'
/Users/mikea/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.0/lib/ruby/2.3.0/time.rb:302:in `make_time'
/Users/mikea/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.0/lib/ruby/2.3.0/time.rb:366:in `parse'
/Users/mikea/Documents/workspace/myproject/app/services/my_service.rb:25:in `block in process_page_data'
/Users/mikea/Documents/workspace/myproject/app/services/my_service.rb:22:in `each'
/Users/mikea/Documents/workspace/myproject/app/services/my_service.rb:22:in `process_page_data'
How do I rewrite my first line to accurately convert duration into milliseconds?
If you know you're always going to be using a hours:minutes:seconds format, but the number in each field isn't guaranteed to be inside the 'normal' range (e.g. 0-23 for hours, 0-59 for minutes, etc), then you're probably best off doing it 'manually' using something like this:
def duration_in_milliseconds(input)
h, m, s = input.split(':').map(&:to_i)
(h.hours + m.minutes + s.seconds) * 1000
end
puts duration_in_milliseconds('34:13:00') #=> 123180000
Note that this only works with ActiveSupport, but you have that, since you've specified Rails. Also, this assumes you're always getting all three terms (e.g. 5 seconds is 00:00:05). The full setup that accepts shorter strings as well would want to also use your convert_to_hrs method.
Note also that this works even if formatting isn't strictly 'time-like', as long as you have consistent colons as seperators:
puts duration_in_milliseconds('1:1:5') #=> 3665000
The Numeric#hours, Numeric#minutes and Numeric#seconds methods are provided by ActiveSupport, as part of active_support/core-ext/time.rb. They aren't particularly documented, but they return ActiveSupport::Duration objects, which have fancy methods for interacting with Time and Date issues like 5.days.ago, but when treated as an integer are effectively a number of seconds.
Time.parse is throwing error, becuase values you passing in duration variable is out of range.
For Ex:
Time.parse(convert_to_hrs('59:59')) as per your written code, it's return 2016-07-27 00:59:59 +0530
Here the value 59:59 consider as minutes:seconds, so if you pass the value 60:60 then it will raise the error argument out of range
Here is the official documentation for parse method of Time
Hope this will help you.
I have written a rule like
if
the period of 'Request' is more than 0
then
set the date of 'Request' to due_date - 1 Day;
else
set the date of 'Request' to due_date ;
for period values other than 0 it's working fine but when value of period is 0 it just skips whole rule, i.e it neither go to then nor else.
I am using ODM 8.6 and testing through DVS file.
I have tried same thing in ODM 8.5 and it's working fine there
please help in getting this issue resolved.
Did you try with the latest fixpack?
In general it is poor design for rules to use the else construct. Try to split the rule into 2 different rules:
for period of 'Request'>0, and
for period of 'Request'<0.
I've searched high and low and can't seem to find a straight answer on this. Basically, I'm calling the YouTube API and getting a JSON document back, then parsing it. Everything else is good, but I don't understand how to parse the 'duration' property to display it as human readable.
The 'duration' field comes over as 'PT1H5M34S' - 1 hour 5 minutes 34 seconds
Or it could be 'PT24S' - 24 seconds
Or 'PT4M3S' - 4 minutes 3 seconds
There has to be a way in Ruby to parse this string and make it human readable so that I can just pass in the duration on the fly in my loop and convert it. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated. I've tried using Date.parse, Time.parse, Date.strptime, along with many other things... Like just gsub-ing the PT out of the string and displaying it, but that doesn't seem right.
Try arnau's ISO8601 parser (https://github.com/arnau/ISO8601)
Usage:
d = ISO8601::Duration.new('PT1H5M34S')
d.to_seconds # => 3934.0
A simple approach to get the number of seconds for videos less than 24 hours:
dur = "PT34M5S"
pattern = "PT"
pattern += "%HH" if dur.include? "H"
pattern += "%MM" if dur.include? "M"
pattern += "%SS"
DateTime.strptime(dur, pattern).seconds_since_midnight.to_i
You can use Rails ActiveSupport::Duration
parsed_duration = ActiveSupport::Duration.parse(youtube_duration)
Time.at(parsed_duration).utc.strftime('%H:%M:%S')
I have a string of the following format:
"136:16:11.862504"
(hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds)
Whenever I try to use Ruby's strptime to parse this string, it throws an ArgumentError: invalid strptime format - '%H:%M:%S'
I've actually searched quite extensively and cannot figure out an elegant way to parse this (besides the rather clunky solution of splitting the string by its colons and periods, and doing it all manually). Is there a way of doing this that I'm overlooking?
EDIT: I'm not looking to get a timestamp out of this, I'm looking to get a time duration.
What is your expected output? '136' is not a valid hour, and since you don't have a date portion, we can't simply turn those 'extra' hours into days. If you don't care about the date portion, this solution may work for you:
time = "136:16:11.862504"
hours, minutes, seconds = time.split(":").map(&:to_f)
hours %= 24
minutes %= 60
seconds %= 60
Time.new(0, 1, 1, hours, minutes, seconds, 0)
=> 0000-01-01 16:16:11 +0000
In case if nothing blocks you from using Regexp, you could use something based on this answer, for example:
/^(\d+):([0-5][0-9]):([0-5][0-9])\.\d+$/ =~ "136:16:11.862504"
puts "#{$1} : #{$2} : #{$3}"
136 : 16 : 11