• Mandeep Singh Brar (7/7) Jan 12 2011 Hi,
• Jesse Phillips (3/12) Jan 12 2011 No. Though std.date will be replaced with std.datetime (soon?), which mi...
• Jonathan M Davis (13/19) Jan 12 2011 That wouldn't really make sense. It's holds a _date_ and time, not just ...

Mandeep Singh Brar <mandeep brars.co.in> writes:

Hi,

Is there a way to parse a Time string like 15:45 to a Date structure.
Parse method in std.date returns it as invalid. As a hack it works by
prepending it with something like 1-1-1970. But is there a cleaner
way to it.

Thanks
Mandeep

Jesse Phillips <jessekphillips+D gmail.com> writes:

Mandeep Singh Brar Wrote:

 Hi,
 
 Is there a way to parse a Time string like 15:45 to a Date structure.
 Parse method in std.date returns it as invalid. As a hack it works by
 prepending it with something like 1-1-1970. But is there a cleaner
 way to it.
 
 Thanks
 Mandeep

No. Though std.date will be replaced with std.datetime (soon?), which might
have what is needed.

I was doing something where I would grab dates from many formats, and the
strategy I used, attempt a conversion, if that failed append current year.
(though I wasn't concerned with time as you are) (I wanted to find out if the
date had already past so assuming the most current information was the best
option.)

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 07:29:39 Mandeep Singh Brar wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Is there a way to parse a Time string like 15:45 to a Date structure.
 Parse method in std.date returns it as invalid. As a hack it works by
 prepending it with something like 1-1-1970. But is there a cleaner
 way to it.

That wouldn't really make sense. It's holds a _date_ and time, not just a time. 
And just glancing at the implementation, it doesn't look like it can do it. The 
new std.datetime would allow you to parse it as a time into a 
std.datetime.TimeOfDay, but that just made it into svn, so it won't be out
until 
the next release (unless you grab the svn version and build it yourself).

std.date is pretty buggy overall, so you need to be careful when using it 
anyway. std.datetime will be replacing it, and it's has _way_ more 
functionality, and, while likely not bug-free, works much better. But it's only 
in svn at the moment. So, for the moment, I'd advise either parsing the whole 
date and time with std.date - even if it's only the time that you want - or
just 
parsing it yourself, which is pretty easy, much as you shouldn't have to.

- Jonathan M Davis