You try to open a tab separated file in Excel and get error ‘Excel has detected that ‘test.txt’ is a SYLK file, but cannot load it. Either the file has errors or it is not a SYLK file format. Click OK to try to open the file in a different format.’ The file looks something …
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Change timezone with TZ environment variable in Windows
If your program uses one of the following MFC or CRT function, then you can change timezone using TZ environment variable: CTime::GetLocalTm CTime::Format COleDateTime::operator= ctime _wctime _tctime _ctime64 _wctime64 _tctime64 mktime _mktime64 _utime _wutime _tutime _utime64 _wutime64 _tutime64 For example, to set the TZ environment variable to correspond to the current time zone in Germany, …
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PHP $_POST returns only one item for SELECT multiple HTML tag
PHP developers decided that values posted from HTML select tag with attribute multiple, somehow overwrites some internal variable data. Basically it goes like this – you have the following form with a select tag: <form action=”/post.php” method=”post”> <select name=”MyMultiSelect” multiple> <option>one</option> <option>two</option> <option>three</option> <option>four</option> </select> <input type=”submit” value=”send”> </form> and in PHP you try to …
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