still newbie in java, apologize

weekend gaps are totally spoiling my long term tests so I need to do something about it (like closing positions on friday if there are, reopening the same on the monday), rather than test week by week

from

bar.getTime()

what would be the most elegant way to obtain the day of the week( string ?) & the gmt hour (int ?)

I've been hitting a wall there as I didn't find anything about date/time conversion in the wiki nor the API javadoc

the only way I can think about is really ugly (bartime - current week bar time / number of ms per day... not even being sure about when a week bar starts). There are more straightforward ways aren't there ?

thanks for your help or for pointing to the doc that'd cover this

              Date date = new Date (askBar.getTime());
              console.getOut().println(date.getDay());
              console.getOut().println(date.getHours());

return integer for day of the week.

However :


https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/ap ... tDay%28%29

getDay is working on my machine though (ubuntu java 6);
haven't found how to use Calendar

looking forward for explanations on what should be the best way to do it

Try this approach:
https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#History_bars/Filter_usage

About Calendar usage:

Calendar calendar = GregorianCalendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
calendar.setTimeInMillis(askBar.getTime());
int dayOfWeek = calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK);

Maybe it is a bit over complicated, but you can use the SimpleDateFormat class to convert the time (long) to string, and then get the hour (int) from the string.
See https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#Format_Date_Time.

See:
https://www.dukascopy.com/wiki/#Customize_trading_hours

thank you all for this & sorry I didn't look well enough in the wiki since it was there...

nb : link to simpledateformat class in oracle site is broken

The links have been updated.