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2969 :: [solved] what is correct way to parse time?

• mashingan (orginal) [2017-05-24T09:02:57+02:00] view original

  I want to parse the string time but it results runtime error

  import times
  
  var parsedTime = parse("2017-05-24 10:33:54", "yyyy-MM-dd' 'HH:mm:ss")
  Run

  Error

  
  Traceback (most recent call last)
  parsingtime.nim(3)       parsingtime
  times.nim(952)           parse
  times.nim(751)           parseToken
  strutils.nim             parseInt
  Error: unhandled exception: invalid integer: 0: [ValueError]
  Run

  What is the correct way to parse time?

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• cdunn2001 (orginal) [2017-05-24T11:32:39+02:00] view original

  Try strptime

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• mashingan (orginal) [2017-05-24T11:49:42+02:00] view original

  Thanks for suggestion.

  I noticed that's for posix platform, I prefer platform agnostic which times provided but I'll use strptime if there's no other way.

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• dom96 (orginal) [2017-05-24T12:32:32+02:00] view original

  That code works for me. Which version of Nim are you using?

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• mashingan (orginal) [2017-05-24T15:17:55+02:00] view original

  My Nim version

  
  > nim -v
  Nim Compiler Version 0.17.0 (2017-05-18) [Windows: amd64]
  Copyright (c) 2006-2017 by Andreas Rumpf
  
  git hash: d3f0f87e81e262ee25fd528aae5b6db0bdf78d5e
  active boot switches: -d:release
  Run

  I'm running Windows 10 64bit. Using Linux Subsystem yield same result but that version is 0.16.0

  Running on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit returns the same error too, the Nim version is 0.17.0

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• mashingan (orginal) [2017-05-24T16:19:41+02:00] view original

  Found the mistake facepalm

  I looked why the char value fed to parseInt was off for one, then I realized I put additional space in layout string. sigh

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