Question

I’m working on a small web form that requires the user to input (among other things), the scheduled backup time of whatever server they’re adding to the system. The problem is, I’m struggling to find out the best way to take the user input and build a DateTime object (which is what the database requires).

I only really care about the Day of Week, Time of Day (12 or 24 hour clock).

I thought about just creating an empty DateTime object and then just adding my input values from the user, but you can only get, not set, the day of week, time of day, etc.

I’ve been looking at the Calender asp control, which would work for the day of the week selection, but I can’t seem to find any support of time of day.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don’t think you want to use a DateTime for a recurring event such as a backup. A DateTime is useful for storing a particular date and time, but not a ‘template’ for a recurring event. Instead I’d use separate columns to store the day of week value (0-6) and time of date (minutes after midnight) for the event.