Rounding down with Time to a specific interval - go

I am using time.Unix for my time library in Go, but I am having trouble figuring out how to round down to a specific format. I have a function that takes input to time like this:
func roundTimeDown(startTime time.Time) string {
tUnix:= startTime.Unix()
}
But I would like to round it down to intervals of 5 mins (ending in 30 seconds). For example, 9:57:30, 10:02:30, 10:07:30, etc.
So, if a user sends 10:08 into the function, it'll round down to 10:07:30. How can I do that?

Looks like a job for Time.Truncate.

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How do I get the floor of the current time to an hour?

Assuming current time is 3:41:19, I would like to "floor" the timestamp to 3:00:00.
For example, the current time in unix is:
now := time.Now().Unix()
How do I get the floor to an hour in the same format?
Use Truncate:
now := time.Now()
onHour := now.Truncate(time.Hour)
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Do note from the docs:
It does not operate on the presentation form of the time. Thus, Truncate(Hour) may return a time with a non-zero minute, depending on the time's Location.
So using UTC timezone location would avoid unexpected surprises.

CRON JOB - Schedule Laravel command for different timezones - Manage for different regions

I'm using Laravel 5.8 and I like to auto-generate Invoices should be generated auto from Monday - Sunday.
every Sunday night at 23:59:00
Let's say I have
"23:59:00 according to the region time zone".
Every store is related to a region, from the region table you'll find the time zone.
Questions
How should I set the CRON JOB so I can generate invoices automatically according to the list of timezone I will get from the table?.
I have two suggestions;
if you want it to be static, define each command with the corresponding timezone from your database. Different timezones may have same time such as Europe/Amsterdam and Europe/Berlin
$schedule->command('generate:report')->timezone('one-of-the-timezone')->at('23:59');
$schedule->command('generate:report')->timezone('another-timezone')->at('23:59');
$schedule->command('generate:report')->timezone('yet-another-timezone')->at('23:59');
$schedule->command('generate:report')->timezone('some-other-timezone')->at('23:59');
If you want it to be dynamic, make it run every 59. min hourly and try to match it with the timezones via using hour.
$schedule->command('generate:report')->hourlyAt(59);
Inside your command class;
public function handle(TimezoneRepository $timezoneRepository)
{
$timezones = $timezoneRepository->getUniqueTimezones(); // the unique timezones in your database - cache if you want
foreach ($timezones as $timezone) {
$date = Carbon::now($timezone); // Carbon::now('Europe/Moscow'), Carbon::now('Europe/Amsterdam') etc..
if ($date->hour === 23) { // you are in that timezone
$currentTimezone = $date->getTimezone();
dispatch(new ReportMaker($currentTimezone)); // dispatch your report maker job
}
}
}
With the dynamic one, you will hit to multiple timezones at one iteration(when generate:report is executed) as i said at then beginning.
one of the possible flaw may be; if the execution of getting timezones etc takes more than 1 minute you may be in 00:00 instead of 23:59. It is better to calculate your report asynchronous and cache the list of timezones to not face problems while executing this loop.
Another possible flaw;
According to wiki;
A few zones are offset by 30 or 45 minutes (e.g. Newfoundland Standard Time is UTC−03:30, Nepal Standard Time is UTC+05:45, Indian Standard Time is UTC+05:30 and Myanmar Standard Time is UTC+06:30).
If you want to cover any of these, then it is better to execute the command like this
$schedule->command('generate:report')->cron('14,29,44,59 * * * *');
and make both hour and minute comparison such as;
$date->hour === 23 && $date->hour === 59
You can use the timezone() method in your task Schedulding
Using the timezone method, you may specify that a scheduled task's
time should be interpreted within a given timezone:
$schedule->command('report:generate')
->timezone('America/New_York')
->at('02:00')

Google Spreadsheet time between date - hour calculation

I am at a loss, i looked around the internet and stackoverflow but every so called solution is giving either errors or plainly don't work.
I have the following setup.
4 fields (setup in date dd-mm-yyyy, hour hh:mm:ss) seconds are not important.
start date : 7-1-2020
start hour : 23:30:00
end date : 8-1-2020
end hour : 03:50:00
What i want to happen is to calculate the diffrence in 'hours, minutes' between the end and the start date, hour. But when I calculate and change the end date to lets say 09-01-2020 it does not count the extra 24h at all.
Use Text format:
=text(A3-A1+A4-A2,"[H]:MM")
You need to format the time difference as a duration using the custom format
[h]:mm
for hours and minutes
or
[h]
for whole hours.
There are some good notes on how it works in Excel here and as far as I can tell from testing it Google Sheets is the same.
Alternatively, if I read your question as wanting to drop the minutes and seconds from the times before doing the calculation, you could use
=(B3-B1)*24+hour(B4)-hour(B2)
and just format the result as a normal number.
After alot of fiddeling and this post i came to the conclusion that the main issue was not laying within the mathematical but within the format of the cell.
By default all time values in sheets are 24h max.
So the basic formula =start - end
The time format needed should be
more date time format
elapsed hours : elapsed minutes
apply
Now you should see the correct elapsed hours and minutes

Find the difference between 2 dates and check if smaller than a given value

my issue is that I want to be able to get two time stamps and compare if the second (later taken) one is less than 59 minutes away from the first one.
Following this thread Compare two dates with JavaScript
the date object may do the job.
but first thing i am not happy with is that it takes the time from my system.
is it possible to get the time from some public server or something?
cause there always is a chance that the system clock gets manipulated within the time stamps, so that would be too unreliable.
some outside source would be great.
then i am not too sure how to get the difference between 2 times (using 2 date objects).
many issue that may pop up:
time being something like 3:59 and 6:12
so just comparing minutes would give the wrong idea.
so we consider hours too.
biut there the issue with the modulo 24.
day 3 23:59 and day 4 0:33 wouldnt be viewed proper either.
so including days too.
then the modulo 30 thing, even though that on top changes month for month.
so month and year to be included as well.
so we would need the whole date, everything from current year to second (because second would be nice too, for precision)
and comparing them would require tons of if clauses for year, month, etc.
do the date objects have some predfeined date comparision function that actually keeps all these things in mind (havent even mentioned leap years yet, have I)?
time would be very important cause exactly at the 59 minutes mark (+-max 5 seconds wouldnt matter but getting rmeitely close to 60 is forbidden)
a certain function would have to be used that without fail closes a website.
script opens website at mark 0 min, does some stuff rinse and repeat style and closes page at 59 min mark.
checking the time like every few seconds would be smart.
Any good ideas how to implement such a time comparision that doesnt take too more computer power yet is efficient as in new month starting and stuff doesnt mess it up?
You can compare the two Date times, but when creating a date time there is a parameter of DateTime(value) which you can use.
You can use this API to get the current UTC time which returns a example JSON array like this:
{
"$id":"1",
"currentDateTime":"2019-11-09T21:12Z",
"utcOffset":"00:00:00",
"isDayLightSavingsTime":false,
"dayOfTheWeek":"Saturday",
"timeZoneName":"UTC",
"currentFileTime":132178075626292927,
"ordinalDate":"2019-313",
"serviceResponse":null
}
So you can use either the currentFileTime or the currentDateTime return from that API to construct your date object.
Example:
const date1 = new Date('2019-11-09T21:12Z') // time when I started writing this answer
const date2 = new Date('2019-11-09T21:16Z') // time when I finished writing this answer
const diff = new Date(date2-date1)
console.log(diff.toTimeString()) // time it took me to write this
Please keep in mind that due to network speeds, the time API will be a little bit off (by a few milliseconds)

millisecond time in ahk

I'm looking for a way to save timestamps to the millisecond in ahk.
FormatTime, stamp, , HH:mm:ss
FileAppend,
(
%stamp%,`n
), C:\%thefilename%.txt
The above code only provides time to the second. My events sometimes take place twice a second. Can ahk provide this level of detail?
FileAppend,
(
%A_Hour%:%A_Min%:%A_Sec% (%A_MSec%),`n
), C:\%thefilename%.txt
Have you looked at using the internal %A_TickCount% (approx. ms accuracy) variable to create an Elapsed Time value between two timing points?
Something like:
startTime := %A_TickCount%
;Do your things
elapsedTime := startTime - %A_TickCount%
Should do the trick to get ms time.

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