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Task/Date-manipulation/MiniScript/date-manipulation.mini

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+import "dateTime"
+import "stringUtil"
+
+months = [
+  "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
+  "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December",
+]
+
+date   = "March 7 2009 7:30pm EST"
+print "Original date/time : " + date
+
+// change the date to standard format
+items  = date.split
+month  = months.indexOf(items[0]) + 1
+day    = items[1]
+year   = items[2]
+time   = items[3]
+hour   = time.split(":")[0].val
+minute = time.split(":")[1][0:2]
+pm     = time.endsWith("pm")
+if pm then hour = hour + 12
+time   = hour + ":" + minute
+zone   = items[4]
+date   = year + "-" + month + "-" + day + " " + time
+
+// add 12 hours and display in original format
+dval   = dateTime.val(date) + 12*60*60
+dfmt   = "MMMM d yyyy h:mmtt"
+date2  = dateTime.str(dval, dfmt) + " " + zone
+print "12 hours later     : " + date2
+
+// change from EST to MST (2 hours earlier)
+date3  = dateTime.str(dval - 2*60*60, dfmt) + " MST"
+print "Adjusted to MST    : " + date3