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Show HN: My Weekend Project – Automatically determine date format string

28 points by lotkowskim 9y ago

anonfunction 9y ago
Interesting that there is another tool[1] on Show HN right now that does this but for strftime instead of moment.js, I guess I need to build one for Golang's weird time formatting. 1. http://strftime.guru/ http://strftime.guru/
- lotkowskim 9y ago
  That's pretty cool, thanks for letting me know!
- strkek 9y ago
  There's Fucking Go Date Format [1], which is close enough. Btw, as a Go developer myself, I still can't remember Go's format. [1]: http://fuckinggodateformat.com/ http://fuckinggodateformat.com/
lotkowskim 9y ago
Need to clean up the code and then I will upload it to Github :) Also let me know if there are any formats that don't work for you.
fiatjaf 9y ago
I don't know how it is supposed to work: https://screenshots.firefox.com/43Qs5xpvJ3Jm1oHi/date-format.xyz https://screenshots.firefox.com/43Qs5xpvJ3Jm1oHi/date-format... Why are there two different fields? I imagined only one would do the job.
- lotkowskim 9y ago
  It's to remove ambiguity (not all), i.e. you select a date and then specify how you want it to look. For example, the date 12/05/2017 can be interpreted as either DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY but if you select a date first and then describe your desired format we can exclude one of the possibilities.
  - 0x62 9y ago
    Perhaps consider removing the choice? For example, have only one input (the desired format) and above it some text saying "How would you format '28/03/2018 21:37'?". This removes the confusion of two inputs, and provided you select an unambiguous baseline date (day & hour > 12) it should be more clear.
continuational 9y ago
I made a similar tool that could take almost arbitrery text strings like “mar 27, ’09” or “07/08/97” and generate a list of all valid interpretations. Eg. “07/08/97” would generate [{d: 7, m: 8, y: 97}, {d: 8, m: 7, y: 97}], but not any where 97 is a day or month, since that wouldn’t be a valid date.
lozzo 9y ago
just a suggestion but can we get a bit more than one page with a couple of fields ? It's okay to get straight to the point and being minimalistic but a few infos about the author and whether there is a github repo for the code... those things would help
- jamestimmins 9y ago
  I'm genuinely curious, why would that help? Would that change the way you viewed the tool?

28 points by lotkowskim 9y ago

Interesting that there is another tool[1] on Show HN right now that does this but for strftime instead of moment.js, I guess I need to build one for Golang's weird time formatting. 1. http://strftime.guru/ http://strftime.guru/

lotkowskim 9y ago
That's pretty cool, thanks for letting me know!
strkek 9y ago
There's Fucking Go Date Format [1], which is close enough. Btw, as a Go developer myself, I still can't remember Go's format. [1]: http://fuckinggodateformat.com/ http://fuckinggodateformat.com/

lotkowskim 9y ago

Need to clean up the code and then I will upload it to Github :) Also let me know if there are any formats that don't work for you.

fiatjaf 9y ago

I don't know how it is supposed to work: https://screenshots.firefox.com/43Qs5xpvJ3Jm1oHi/date-format.xyz https://screenshots.firefox.com/43Qs5xpvJ3Jm1oHi/date-format... Why are there two different fields? I imagined only one would do the job.

lotkowskim 9y ago
It's to remove ambiguity (not all), i.e. you select a date and then specify how you want it to look. For example, the date 12/05/2017 can be interpreted as either DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY but if you select a date first and then describe your desired format we can exclude one of the possibilities.
- 0x62 9y ago
  Perhaps consider removing the choice? For example, have only one input (the desired format) and above it some text saying "How would you format '28/03/2018 21:37'?". This removes the confusion of two inputs, and provided you select an unambiguous baseline date (day & hour > 12) it should be more clear.

continuational 9y ago

I made a similar tool that could take almost arbitrery text strings like “mar 27, ’09” or “07/08/97” and generate a list of all valid interpretations. Eg. “07/08/97” would generate [{d: 7, m: 8, y: 97}, {d: 8, m: 7, y: 97}], but not any where 97 is a day or month, since that wouldn’t be a valid date.

lozzo 9y ago

just a suggestion but can we get a bit more than one page with a couple of fields ? It's okay to get straight to the point and being minimalistic but a few infos about the author and whether there is a github repo for the code... those things would help

jamestimmins 9y ago
I'm genuinely curious, why would that help? Would that change the way you viewed the tool?