Ruby on Rails - Working with times - ruby-on-rails

If in a database (MySQL), I have a datetime column (ex. 1899-12-30 19:00:00), how do I sum 1 day to it?
Following http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/classes/Time.html#M000240
If I want to add 1 day, it actually adds 60*60*24 days (86,400 days)
r=Record.find(:first)
=>Sat, 30 Dec 1899 19:00:00 -0600
r.date + (60*60*24)
=>Fri, 20 Jul 2136 19:00:00 -0600
But if I do this it actually adds 1 day:
t = Time.now
=>Mon Jun 14 10:32:51 -0600 2010
t + (60 * 60 * 24)
=>Tue Jun 15 10:33:21 -0600 2010
I guess it has to do with the format...how do I make this work?

You're actually adding 86,400 seconds (60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours).
ActiveSupport has some built in helper methods for dealing with time:
Time.now + 1.day + 15.hours

In Rails,
its very simple to use times.
r = Record.find(:first)
r.created_at + 1.day # this will give you a day to one day ahead )
r.created_at + 2.days + 15.hours + 30.minutes + 5.seconds
or use Time.now
Also, if you want take a look at the by_star plugin/gem its makes some querying etc very easy.

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How to schedule Jenkins job to run every last day of every month

I use Jenkins job to run monthly some DB tests. After reading about Jenkins format, I try to schedule build for every last day of every month like this:
TZ=Europe/Sofia
{
H 06 31 1 *
H 06 28 2 *
H 06 31 3 *
H 06 30 4 *
H 06 31 5 *
H 06 30 6 *
H 06 31 7 *
H 06 31 8 *
H 06 30 9 *
H 19 31 10 *
H 06 30 11 *
H 06 31 12 *
}
Is there smarter war for this runs ? And do you know why yesterday the job ran at 31-Oct-2018 18:54:00, not at 19:00 pm ?
Not sure if you can achieve this easily without using some additional code to check if the next day is the first from the next month.
This is the starting point: 0 23 28-31 * *

How to set two different scheduler for single Jenkins job

I just want to run the job twice per week. Every Sunday 11 PM and every Friday 11 pm I just want to trigger the job automatically. I successfully implemented for one scheduler but not sure how to use two in single .
Sunday scheduler :
H 11 * * 0
Friday scheduler:
H 11 * * 6
For scheduling the job below pattern need to be followed:-
0 - Sun Sunday
1 - Mon Monday
2 - Tue Tuesday
3 - Wed Wednesday
4 - Thu Thursday
5 - Fri Friday
6 - Sat Saturday
7 - Sun Sunday
For your case you can follow the below:-
0 23 * * 0,5
You better understanding of "H" in Jobs Scheduler follow this:
Maybe something like this. Note there's a couple changes from your example, changed 11 to 23, 11 is 11am, 23 is 11pm and using 5 instead of 6 for Friday.
H 23 * * 0,5
But note with the "H" it isn't going to run at exactly 11pm, from the Jenkins docs:
The H symbol can be thought of as a random value over a range, but it
actually is a hash of the job name, not a random function, so that the
value remains stable for any given project.
If you want it to run closer to 11pm, maybe something like this
H(1-5) 23 * * 0,5

Case,Substring and concat within a cognos Data Item Expression

I'm scratching my head trying to work with time functions within Cognos 10.2.1 (Report Studio), using an Informix db as a data source.
My time field is stored as a smallint, 4 digits, representing the 24 hour clock. I am trying to get the time to display as 6:00pm, 11:30am, 3:00pm, etc. I have a separate data expression that calculates the string 'AM' or 'PM' depending on the hour value, but I'm running into some errors when doing the overall concat/substring function.
case when char_length([Query1].[beg_tm]) = 4
then (substring(cast([StartTime], char(5)), 1, 2)) || ':' || (substring (cast ([StartTime], char(5)), 3, 2)) || ([beg_AMPMcalc])
when char_length([Query1].[beg_tm]) = 3
then (substring(cast([StartTime], char(5)), 1, 1)) || ':' || (substring(cast ([StartTime], char(5)), 3, 2)) || ([beg_AMPMcalc])
else '--'
end
Why not use DATETIME HOUR TO MINUTE; at least you then only have to deal with converting 24 hour clock to 12 hour clock. Is midnight stored as 0 and noon as 1200, and the minute before midnight as 2359? Cognos uses a fairly modern version of Informix, I believe, so you should be able to use the TO_CHAR function:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS times;
CREATE TEMP TABLE times(p_time SMALLINT);
INSERT INTO times VALUES(0);
INSERT INTO times VALUES(59);
INSERT INTO times VALUES(100);
INSERT INTO times VALUES(845);
INSERT INTO times VALUES(1159);
INSERT INTO times VALUES(1200);
INSERT INTO times VALUES(1259);
INSERT INTO times VALUES(1300);
INSERT INTO times VALUES(1815);
INSERT INTO times VALUES(2359);
SELECT TO_CHAR(CURRENT HOUR TO MINUTE, "%I:%M %p"),
p_time,
DATETIME(00:00) HOUR TO MINUTE + MOD(p_time, 100) UNITS MINUTE + (p_time/100) UNITS HOUR,
TO_CHAR(DATETIME(00:00) HOUR TO MINUTE + MOD(p_time, 100) UNITS MINUTE + (p_time/100) UNITS HOUR, "%I:%M %p")
FROM times;
Output:
03:49 AM 0 00:00 12:00 AM
03:49 AM 59 00:59 12:59 AM
03:49 AM 100 01:00 01:00 AM
03:49 AM 845 08:45 08:45 AM
03:49 AM 1159 11:59 11:59 AM
03:49 AM 1200 12:00 12:00 PM
03:49 AM 1259 12:59 12:59 PM
03:49 AM 1300 13:00 01:00 PM
03:49 AM 1815 18:15 06:15 PM
03:49 AM 2359 23:59 11:59 PM
I'm using a database server that has its local time set to UTC, and I'm in time zone -07:00 (US/Pacific); the current time isn't the middle of the night where I am.

Datetime Diff in ROR

I have a ruby application where i need to get date-time difference in Days-Hours-Minutes format. For this i m using following function
def duration (from_time, to_time)
from_time = from_time.to_time if from_time.respond_to?(:to_time)
to_time = to_time.to_time if to_time.respond_to?(:to_time)
distance_in_seconds = ((to_time - from_time).abs).round
secs = distance_in_seconds.to_int
mins = secs / 60
hours = mins / 60
days = hours / 24
if days > 0
"#{days}d #{hours % 24}h"
elsif hours > 0
"#{hours}h #{mins % 60}m"
elsif mins > 0
"#{mins}m"
end
end
The above called like this from another function
duration(aw_updated, Time.now)
But some time it gives me wrong result,
when i display above values
aw_updated is 2012-09-19 04:23:34 UTC
Time.now is 2012-09-19 16:33:09 +0530
Time.now.utc is 2012-09-19 11:03:09 UTC
And
Diff is 6h 26m
But my system time is 2012-09-19 16:33:09
Not sure where i m doing wrong , some UTC issue?
please advise
For correct answer your both time should have same timezone utc in this case
So it is converting 2012-09-19 16:33:09 +0530 into utc which gives 2012-09-19 11:03:09 UTC and hence difference is Diff is 6h 26m
Would enter this as a comment but can't yet.
I haven't looked in detail at your function but do you have to build it from scratch? Why don't you use the Ruby in built DateTime class. You can parse strings to DateTime objects, do the calculation and use the strftime method to output the time in a format that you want

Calculate number of business days between two days

I need to calculate the number of business days between two dates. How can I pull that off using Ruby (or Rails...if there are Rails-specific helpers).
Likewise, I'd like to be able to add business days to a given date.
So if a date fell on a Thursday and I added 3 business days, it would return the next Tuesday.
Take a look at business_time. It can be used for both the things you're asking.
Calculating business days between two dates:
wednesday = Date.parse("October 17, 2018")
monday = Date.parse("October 22, 2018")
wednesday.business_days_until(monday) # => 3
Adding business days to a given date:
4.business_days.from_now
8.business_days.after(some_date)
Historical answer
When this question was originally asked, business_time didn't provide the business_days_until method so the method below was provided to answer the first part of the question.
This could still be useful to someone who didn't need any of the other functionality from business_time and wanted to avoid adding an additional dependency.
def business_days_between(date1, date2)
business_days = 0
date = date2
while date > date1
business_days = business_days + 1 unless date.saturday? or date.sunday?
date = date - 1.day
end
business_days
end
This can also be fine tuned to handle the cases that Tipx mentions in the way that you would like.
We used to use the algorithm suggested in the mikej's answer and discovered that calculating 25,000 ranges of several years each takes 340 seconds.
Here's another algorithm with asymptotic complexity O(1). It does the same calculations in 0.41 seconds.
# Calculates the number of business days in range (start_date, end_date]
#
# #param start_date [Date]
# #param end_date [Date]
#
# #return [Fixnum]
def business_days_between(start_date, end_date)
days_between = (end_date - start_date).to_i
return 0 unless days_between > 0
# Assuming we need to calculate days from 9th to 25th, 10-23 are covered
# by whole weeks, and 24-25 are extra days.
#
# Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa # Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
# 1 2 3 4 5 # 1 2 3 4 5
# 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 # 6 7 8 9 ww ww ww
# 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 # ww ww ww ww ww ww ww
# 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 # ww ww ww ww ed ed 26
# 27 28 29 30 31 # 27 28 29 30 31
whole_weeks, extra_days = days_between.divmod(7)
unless extra_days.zero?
# Extra days start from the week day next to start_day,
# and end on end_date's week date. The position of the
# start date in a week can be either before (the left calendar)
# or after (the right one) the end date.
#
# Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa # Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
# 1 2 3 4 5 # 1 2 3 4 5
# 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 # 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
# ## ## ## ## 17 18 19 # 13 14 15 16 ## ## ##
# 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 # ## 21 22 23 24 25 26
# 27 28 29 30 31 # 27 28 29 30 31
#
# If some of the extra_days fall on a weekend, they need to be subtracted.
# In the first case only corner days can be days off,
# and in the second case there are indeed two such days.
extra_days -= if start_date.tomorrow.wday <= end_date.wday
[start_date.tomorrow.sunday?, end_date.saturday?].count(true)
else
2
end
end
(whole_weeks * 5) + extra_days
end
business_time has all the functionallity you want.
From the readme:
#you can also calculate business duration between two dates
friday = Date.parse("December 24, 2010")
monday = Date.parse("December 27, 2010")
friday.business_days_until(monday) #=> 1
Adding business days to a given date:
some_date = Date.parse("August 4th, 1969")
8.business_days.after(some_date) #=> 14 Aug 1969
Here is my (non gem and non holiday) weekday count example:
first_date = Date.new(2016,1,5)
second_date = Date.new(2016,1,12)
count = 0
(first_date...second_date).each{|d| count+=1 if (1..5).include?(d.wday)}
count
Take a look at Workpattern. It alows you to specify working and resting periods and can add/subtract durations to/from a date as well as calculate the minutes between two dates.
You can set up workpatterns for different scenarios such as mon-fri working or sun-thu and you can have holidays and whole or part days.
I wrote this as away to learn Ruby. Still need to make it more Ruby-ish.
Based on #mikej's answer. But this also takes into account holidays, and returns a fraction of a day (up to the hour accurancy):
def num_days hi, lo
num_hours = 0
while hi > lo
num_hours += 1 if hi.workday? and !hi.holiday?
hi -= 1.hour
end
num_hours.to_f / 24
end
This uses the holidays and business_time gems.
Simple script to calculate total number of working days
require 'date'
(DateTime.parse('2016-01-01')...DateTime.parse('2017-01-01')).
inject({}) do |s,e|
s[e.month]||=0
if((1..5).include?(e.wday))
s[e.month]+=1
end
s
end
# => {1=>21, 2=>21, 3=>23, 4=>21, 5=>22, 6=>22, 7=>21, 8=>23, 9=>22, 10=>21, 11=>22, 12=>22}
There are two problems with the most popular solutions listed above:
They involve loops to count every single day between each date (meaning that performance gets worse the further apart the dates are.
They are unclear about whether they count from the beginning of the day or the end. If you count from the morning, there is one weekday between Friday and Saturday. If you count from the night, there are zero weekdays between Friday and Saturday.
After stewing over it, I propose this solution that addresses both problems. The below takes a reference date and an other date and calculates the number of weekdays between them (returning a negative number if other is before the reference date). The argument eod_base controls whether counting is done from end of day (eod) or start of day. It could be written more compactly but hopefully it's relatively easy to understand and it doesn't require gems or rails.
require 'date'
def weekdays_between(ref,otr,eod_base=true)
dates = [ref,otr].sort
return 0 if dates[0] == dates[1]
full_weeks = ((dates[1]-dates[0])/7).floor
dates[eod_base ? 0 : 1] += (eod_base ? 1 : -1)
part_week = Range.new(dates[0],dates[1])
.inject(0){|m,v| (v.wday >=1 && v.wday <= 5) ? (m+1) : m }
return (otr <=> ref) * (full_weeks*5 + part_week)
end

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