I have a programming delima that I'm not sure how to approach this.

I have a SQL table with a number of number with application name and epoch time/date stored for each one. And I have an excel file saying "for X apps I need data for M-F 7am-8pm, Sat 8am-6pm, Sun 9am-1pm", etc. The times and dates can very with each application.

I'm trying to figure out what would be the best way to tackle this problem:
1 - Storing of the application and time range values (retain simple human editability).
2 - How to gather such data (although, I suspect I can write some ugly SQL statement).

Anybody have thoughts on how to approach this?

Thanks

Updated: Updated title. This isn't an excel thing; ingore the Excel peice. I'm not parsing an Excel document. They will be editing the date/time brackets per the format I give them.

-- philip
We put the 'K' in kwality!

In reply to Date/Time Parse with time exemptions and SQL querying by guice

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.