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I am trying to convert a date from this format:

yyyymmddHHMMSS. mmmmmmsUUU

to a format that ASP.NET (VB.NET) understands.

The above date format is used by the WMI datetime type. I don't care about
the mmmmmmsUUU part, as that counts milliseconds and microseconds. The sUUU
is a three digit offset indicating the number of minutes that the
originating time zone deviates from UTC. Other than that, the format is
pretty self explanatory.

(more info here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/wmisdk/wmi/
date_and_time_f ormat.asp)

I can imagine all kinds of weird, contorted, or otherwise convoluted ways of
formatting this date, but I wanted to check and see if there's an better way
before I go off and spend gobs of time reinventing the wheel.

Any ideas?

-Kevin
Nov 17 '05 #1
3 3013
the easiest way i've seen would probably be:

Dim myDate as Date

myDate = yearstring & "/" & monthstring & "/" & daystring & " " & hourstring
& ":" & minstring

which means you'll have to split up the string somewhere into those
strings...

good luck
"Kevin Vaughn" <ke**********@t tu.edu> wrote in message
news:vg******** ****@corp.super news.com...
I am trying to convert a date from this format:

yyyymmddHHMMSS. mmmmmmsUUU

to a format that ASP.NET (VB.NET) understands.

The above date format is used by the WMI datetime type. I don't care about the mmmmmmsUUU part, as that counts milliseconds and microseconds. The sUUU is a three digit offset indicating the number of minutes that the
originating time zone deviates from UTC. Other than that, the format is
pretty self explanatory.

(more info here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/wmisdk/wmi/ date_and_time_f ormat.asp)

I can imagine all kinds of weird, contorted, or otherwise convoluted ways of formatting this date, but I wanted to check and see if there's an better way before I go off and spend gobs of time reinventing the wheel.

Any ideas?

-Kevin

Nov 17 '05 #2
That's really exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for your time.

-Kevin

"Daniel Bass" <da********@pos tmaster.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uU******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...
the easiest way i've seen would probably be:

Dim myDate as Date

myDate = yearstring & "/" & monthstring & "/" & daystring & " " & hourstring & ":" & minstring

which means you'll have to split up the string somewhere into those
strings...

good luck
"Kevin Vaughn" <ke**********@t tu.edu> wrote in message
news:vg******** ****@corp.super news.com...
I am trying to convert a date from this format:

yyyymmddHHMMSS. mmmmmmsUUU

to a format that ASP.NET (VB.NET) understands.

The above date format is used by the WMI datetime type. I don't care about
the mmmmmmsUUU part, as that counts milliseconds and microseconds. The

sUUU
is a three digit offset indicating the number of minutes that the
originating time zone deviates from UTC. Other than that, the format is
pretty self explanatory.

(more info here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/wmisdk/wmi/
date_and_time_f ormat.asp)

I can imagine all kinds of weird, contorted, or otherwise convoluted

ways of
formatting this date, but I wanted to check and see if there's an better

way
before I go off and spend gobs of time reinventing the wheel.

Any ideas?

-Kevin


Nov 17 '05 #3
Regular Expressions are GREAT for this kind of parsing...
Concise, easy to change and understand...

-----Original Message-----
I am trying to convert a date from this format:

yyyymmddHHMMSS .mmmmmmsUUU

to a format that ASP.NET (VB.NET) understands.

The above date format is used by the WMI datetime type. I don't care aboutthe mmmmmmsUUU part, as that counts milliseconds and microseconds. The sUUUis a three digit offset indicating the number of minutes t

Nov 17 '05 #4

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