Questions tagged [date]
This challenge is intended to be solved by using, manipulating, accepting as input, outputting, or calculating calendar dates or clock times.
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Digit Date Range
NOTE: Since I'm Dutch myself, all dates are in the Dutch dd-MM-yyyy format in the challenge description and test cases.
Challenge:
Inputs:
Start date \$s\$; End ...
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What's the current zodiac?
Display the emoji of the eastern zodiac of given time, according to given country.
The eastern zodiac is a classification scheme that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a ...
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Rotated analog clock [closed]
Given:
a 12 hour time t in hours and minutes,
a rotation r in degrees,
return the time shown when an analog clock that is ...
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Who was president of the USA?
Challenge
Write a program that takes as input a day from April 30, 1789 to August 21, 2019 and returns as output who was president of the USA that day.
Notes
For the list of US presidents, the ...
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Get delta of days by current hour and added delta of days
Inputs:
current hour: from 0 to 23 (inclusive)
delta of hours: [current hour] + ...
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How long's left?
How long's left?
Recently, I was making pizza using a 5-minute timer on my phone. When someone walked in and asked me how long was left, I was confused for a moment at first as to how to answer the ...
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Tesco's Burger Relish Best Before End date number
Given a date between 2010-01-01 and 2099-12-31 as three integers (please state your order if not [year,month,day]), answer with Tesco's corresponding five-digit ...
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Analog is Obtuse!
An analog clock has 2 hands*: Hour and minute.
These hands circle the clock's face as time goes by. Each full rotation of the minute hand results in 1/12th of a rotation of the hour hand. 2 full ...
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FizzBuzz but time-based
Make a program that outputs the number of seconds from the beginning of today (00:00:00 of the day you run it) to the second you ran it. However, if this number is divisible by three, print ...
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The year counter is here [closed]
Create a program that, given an integer N, outputs the number of years we have to get to N A.D. or how many years it has been since N A.D, as a string or int. For example, given 2014, the program ...
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Output the date in the Mel calendar
The Mel calendar is used in the fictional world of Kaldia. Your goal is to convert dates into the Mel calendar.
This calendar has 13 months of 28 days each, plus 1 or 2 extra days after the last ...
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Today is the Center
Given a date as input in any convenient format, output a calendar with that date as the exact center of a five-week window. The header of the calendar must include the two-letter abbreviations for the ...
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Which were the latest 13 consecutive years with the most friday 13. in total? [closed]
Shortest program wins, of course.
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It's a yearly task, alright
Given a number 1≤n≤365, output the nth day of the year in "Day-numberth Month" format. For example, given 1, you should output "1st January", without "of".
The Gregorian calendar will be used and the ...
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Finding Gaps in Date Ranges
Given a list of date ranges r as input, output or return any ranges not found in r.
For the sake of this example, input will be ...
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Unix timestamp to datetime string
Given a unix timestamp as an input, give a datetime string, in a format like so: "YYMMDD.HHmm"
Rules
The input is a number (integer) of a millisecond-precise UNIX epoch time (milliseconds since 1970 ...
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Mis-decode a date
Background
Inspired by a now deleted question by John Burger from which I quote:
Now obviously no human made this mistake. It's a mis-decode of something - perhaps the ISBN? My question is: ...
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Get the date of the nth day of week in a given year and month
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Often, people refer to dates as the "second Friday in August, 2018" or the "fourth Sunday in March, 2012". But it's hard to tell what date that is! Your task to is to ...
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Encode the date in Christmas Eve format
The day this post was published was Christmas Eve. Tomorrow will be Christmas. Yesterday was Christmas Eve Eve. In two days it will be
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Convert an Excel date code to a "date"
Given a non-negative integer Excel-style date code, return the corresponding "date" in any reasonable form that clearly shows year, month, and "day".
Trivial, you may think. Did you notice the "scare ...
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Through Space and Time
Introduction:
In general we usually speak of four dimensions: three space dimensions for x, y, and ...
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ASCII Calendar Planner
Given a list of activities and their start time/date, output an ASCII-art calendar showing the activities on the appropriate days. All activities are guaranteed to be in the same month, no two ...
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The Work Day Countdown
I just had a genius idea for making the work-life easier - a countdown to a specific date which only counts workdays.
The basic task is to create a countdown to a specific date which only includes ...
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A greeting bot for a colleague from work
I have a colleague at work that works from home every Tuesday and Thursday. At around 8:00 AM he sends us a message with the following text:
Hello today I'm working from home
In order to relieve ...
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Greet according to the time of day
Challenge
Write a program that greets a user depending on what time of day (GMT) it is.
Output
A string (printed or returned) according to these rules:
If the time is 06:00 to 11:59 the greeting has ...
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crossed out 44 is still regular 44 ;(
Introduction
On March 24th, 2015 @isaacg golfed his Pyth answer from 44 to 42 bytes. Since a crossed out 44 (44) looks a lot like a regular 44, @Optimizer made the following comment:
striked out ...
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The Clock Hands of Doom
You are chained to a chair. Underneath you is a huge volcano. A 12-hour clock next to you ticks ominously, and you see that it has wires leading from the back up to a chain, which will drop you into ...
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Computing time sheets
Time sheets
In a work place you often have to complete time sheets. This task is write code to help this.
Input
Two times in a slightly non- standard 12 hour clock signifying the start and end of the ...
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Einstein's Sorter
Challenge
Given a list of integers and a velocity, \$v\$, implement a sorting algorithm which simulates a program sorting the list from smallest to biggest at the given velocity.
Einstein's Theory ...
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Date Occurrences
Given three non-negative integers y, m, and d (of which at least one must be positive) and a ...
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Setting the time
Imagine the following 24-hour clock that can be controlled by arrow keys:
╔══╗ ┌──┐
║00║:│00│
╚══╝ └──┘
HH mm
Pressing the up arrow twice (...
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COBOL Y2K redux
In the 1990s, COBOL computer engineers worked out a way to extend six-digit date fields by converting them to YYYDDD where YYY ...
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Prime Time Travel
Don't tell anyone, but I've nicked my uncle's time travel machine! My uncle is obsessed with prime numbers, though, and that shows in the machine — he has programmed it so that it can only go to dates ...
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Count the timespans
Inspired by a real-life scenario, which I have asked for an answer to here: https://superuser.com/questions/1312212/writing-a-formula-to-count-how-many-times-each-date-appears-in-a-set-of-date-ran
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The Time Anagram
Originally posted (and deleted) by @Tlink, which was most likely inspired from this StackOverflow question.
Since it was a shame it got deleted, because it seemed like a good challenge in general, I ...
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Date Multiplying Challenge
(Inspired by last week's Riddler on FiveThirtyEight.com. Sandbox post.)
Given a year between 2001 and 2099, calculate and return the number of days during that calendar year where ...
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The symmetry of months
Introduction
Some months are completely symmetric, meaning they have central symmetry as well as reflection symmetry, like February of 2010:
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Ticking Quine-Bomb!
Challenge:
Create a program or function that takes an integer input, which outputs a new program/function as specified below.
Input:
Integer n: Time in seconds ...
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How old is it roughly?
Write a short program which takes in a positive number of seconds representing an age, and outputs an estimate of that time in English.
Your program must output the least precise amount of time which ...
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List all palindromic prime dates between 0000-01-01 and 99999-12-31
You know what a palindrome, a prime and a date are.
Your task is to list all dates in 100 thousands of years that fulfill
all three characteristics.
Nevermind anything but the numbers, use the ...
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We had a question once which only failed on Sundays
Inspired by We had a unit test once which only failed on Sundays, write a program or function that does nothing but throw an error when it is Sunday, and exit gracefully on any other day.
Rules:
No ...
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Match the Striking Clock
Introduction:
At home we have a clock that strikes the stated amount at each hour, but also strikes once at every half-hour. So from 0:01 to and including 12:00 it strikes in this order:
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Finding My Favorite Times
I really like times that follow certain patterns. In particular, I like times where all the digits are the same, or all of the digits increase arithmetically by one from left to right. Further, I ...
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Could They Be The Same Day Of The Week?
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Given a non-negative integer, output whether it is possible for two dates (of the Gregorian calendar) differing by exactly that many years to share a day of the week. A year is assumed to be ...
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Implement a Simple Stopwatch
Challenge
Your task is to write a program which, once a second (including immediately when your program is started), prints the elapsed time from the time your program was started.
Rules
Time must ...
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The working time calculator
This is based on how my company deals with the monitoring of the working times for every employee. Each one of us has a card that can be passed in front of a sensor, so that a clock registers the ...
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Days and months make years
Today's date is quite an interesting one. Let's take a look at why. The date 07/12/2017 (in DD/MM/YYYY date format) can be split ...
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Happy Birthday, Finland!
Introduction
As is known, in 2017, Finland celebrates its 100 years of independence. To mark the occasion, it is your job to produce a Finnish flag for everyone's enjoyment.
Challenge
Create a ...
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The Microwave Challenge
Inspired by this comment.
Input
The number of seconds on the timer.
Output
Here's our basic microwave:
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