I like to store the current datetime and store that in a variable called Entry date. When I do the above, I get the following message:      var tz = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Central Standard Time");      var EntryDate = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeToUtc(DateTime.Now, tz);    I get the following message:  The conversion could not be completed because the supplied DateTime did not have the Kind property set correctly.  For example, when the Kind property is DateTimeKind.Local, the source time zone must be TimeZoneInfo.Local.  I tried a number of ways to put Kind but was not successful
We are developing a C# application for a web-service client. This will run on Windows XP PC's.  One of the fields returned by the web service is a DateTime field. The server returns a field in GMT format i.e. with a "Z" at the end.  However, we found that .NET seems to do some kind of implicit conversion and the time was always 12 hours out.  The following code sample resolves this to some extent in that the 12 hour difference has gone but it makes no allowance for NZ daylight saving.  CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("en-NZ"); string date = "Web service date".ToString("R", ci); DateTime convertedDate = DateTime.Parse(date);               As per :     UTC/GMT Offset       Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +12 hours   Daylight saving time: +1 hour   Current time zone offset: UTC/GMT +13 hours     How do we adjust for the extra hour? Can this be done programmatically or is this some kind of setting on the PC's?
A program I am using spits out LaTeX tables in LaTeX files (outreg2 command from Stata), which I run using texify to make pdfs of the tables.  I crop these tables (using pdfcrop) and embed them elsewhere.  However, the pdfs include page numbers, which prevent pdfcrop from cropping directly around the table.  I need an automatic way to remove the page numbers before cropping.  I want to insert the command \pagenumbers{gobble} into the LaTeX code to automatically remove the page numbers.    I believe   texify --pdf --texinfo="\pagenumbering{gobble}" filename.tex   should work.  It does not. No exception pops up, but the page number remains. I cannot find documentation anywhere showing examples of using the --texinfo option to splice LaTeX code into the file before running the LaTeX file to create a pdf.   How should I properly use the texify command?  Or is there another way to splice in  \pagenumbering{gobble} before running texify? Using dynamic where clauses in Entity Framework Transit visa at Istanbul Airport, Turkey, during a Turkish Airlines arranged stopover? Do I need a transit visa at Istanbul Airport to enter Istanbul for city sightseeing or hotel accommodation?. All services provided free by the Turkish Airline. I am Nigerian citizen and booked Turkish Airline flight to Nigeria with 12hours layover at Istanbul Airport. I accidentally unset all the directories of $PATH while trying to add a new one in ~/.bashrc. I opened a new terminal window as I was editing and now $PATH is empty. I'm worried if I boot from another drive to find the $PATH I won't be able to boot into this drive again.  Basically, what is the default result of echo $PATH? I have installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 8.1. But the wifi is not working in Ubuntu (perhaps the drivers are not present), which worked fine in windows. Also I cant connect with Ethernet since my laptop does not have an Ethernet port. So is there any way for me to connect to the internet in ubuntu? Edit: Output of the terminal command  lspci -knn | grep Net -A2:  vikram@vikram-Inspiron-11-3148:~$ lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0018]     Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge vikram@vikram-Inspiron-11-3148:~$    I did what Pilot6 suggested. Here is the output:    vikram@vikram-Inspiron-11-3148:~$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb [sudo] password for vikram:  Selecting previously unselected package bcmwl-kernel-source. (Reading database ... 163804 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2) ... Selecting previously unselected package dkms. Preparing to unpack dkms_2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5.14.04_all.deb ... Unpacking dkms (2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5.14.04) ... Setting up dkms (2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5.14.04) ... Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2) ... Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.141+bdcom DKMS files... First Installation: checking all kernels... Building only for 3.16.0-30-generic Building for architecture x86_64 Building initial module for 3.16.0-30-generic ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-3.16.0-30-generic is not supported Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.16.0-30-generic (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.141+bdcom/build/make.log for more information. modprobe: FATAL: Module wl not found. update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.2) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-30-generic vikram@vikram-Inspiron-11-3148:~$ Proving that free modules are flat (without appealing projective modules) Suppose $R\neq 0$ is a commutative ring with $1$. Let $M$ be a free $R$-module. I would like to prove that $M$ is a flat $R$-module. Everywhere I have looked (mostly online) this is proved by first proving that every free module is projective, and then proving that every projective module is flat. Unfortunately, Atiyah &amp; Macdonald's "Introduction to Commutative Algebra" (Chapter 2) does not discuss projective modules. But the result that every free module is flat comes very handy in the exercises.   So my question is,     Is it possible to prove that every free module is flat just by   definitions and without appealing to projective modules?   Thanks! iPhone 6s with iOS 12.4 not connecting to MacBook Pro mid2015 with macOS 10.14.6 Where is the .Trash folder? How to deal with "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space" error? Pass An Instantiated System.Type as a Type Parameter for a Generic Class How do I get the path of the directory in which a  script is located, inside that script? I want to use a Bash script as a launcher for another application. I want to change the working directory to the one where the Bash script is located, so I can operate on the files in that directory, like so: $ ./application Unable to start Oracle database We have an Oracle database, one data file (users tablespace) of the instance got corrupt and another data file (containing application data) was deleted due to some issue.  The database is in ARCHIVELOG mode, but we neither have data file backup of both data files nor the pertaining archive logs. Hence, I guess we cannot go ahead with the recovery of data files. I am unable to open the database as the data files are not available and face.   ORA-01589: must use RESETLOGS or NORESETLOGS option for database open    I am just able to STARTUP MOUNT the database  I wanted to ask if we can somehow we can open the database by taking both the tablespaces offline after STARTUP MOUNT the database instance. Or if there is any other way I can start the database.   There was a power issue and the  server got abruptly shutdown. When we tried to restart the database and found that we were facing ORA-01589: must use RESETLOGS or NORESETLOGS option for database open. On further analysis we found that 2 of datafiles were creating problem as one got corrupt other deleted as mentioned. As of now if I try to restart the database it says one datafile which belongs to users tablespace need recovery. I wanted to confirm as if we can start the instance by bringing the tablespace offline.  I tried:  SQL&gt; select open_mode from v$database;  OPEN_MODE ---------- MOUNTED  SQL&gt; alter database open resetlogs; alter database open resetlogs * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01194: file 1 needs more recovery to be consistent ORA-01110: data file 1: '/flowsystems/oradata02/flsta02/system01.dbf'   I don't have any archive logs. I noticed a peculiar behavior of my Ubuntu 13.04 (although possibly it's also present in previous versions): when my system freezes completely (I do not ask for troubleshooting this) so that even X does not respond to Ctrl+Alt+FX keys, the CapsLock toggle diode on my keyboard blinks (with frequency of ~1Hz), although the system is completely unresponsive.   What is the cause of this phenomena? Is it caused by some internal kernel mechanisms? Is this specific to Ubuntu (is it caused some custom Ubuntu additional software)? Does it has anything to do with HAL? What is the purpose of it? Can I customize this behavior on Ubuntu? What does it mean that GUIkit is being deprecated? Describe the units in $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{-d}]$ How do I escape a percentage sign in T-SQL? Is there a feasible way to take a one year break from a IT job and work as a crew member on a big ship? How can one go about this? I am a recreational sailor and know intermediate sailing, coastal navigation, radio handling and all that stuff. I think this could be the experience of a life time. Where should  I look? I imagine getting it would be hard since obviously this is a lucrative job. The limit of a convergent Gaussian random variable sequence is still a Gaussian random variable I'm trying to prove this conclusion but have some problems with one of the steps.  Assume $X_1,\ldots,X_n,\ldots$ is a sequence of Gaussian random variables, converging almost surely to $X$, prove that $X$ is Gaussian.  We use characteristics function here. Since $|\phi_{X_n}(t)|\leq 1$, by dominated convergent theorem, we have for any $t$  $$ \lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}e^{it\mu_n-t^2\sigma_n^2/2}=\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\phi_{X_n}(t) = \lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\mathbb{E}\left[e^{itX_n}\right] = \mathbb{E}\left[e^{itX}\right] = \phi_X(t) $$  this is the step that I cannot figure out: $e^{it\mu_n-t^2\sigma_n^2/2}$ converges for any $t$ if and only if $\mu_n$ and $\sigma_n$ converges.   Let $\mu=\lim_n \mu_n$, and $\sigma=\lim_n\sigma_n$, then $\phi_X(t)=e^{it\mu-t^2\sigma^2/2}$, which proves that $X$ is a Gaussian random variable.  Why can we get that $\mu_n$ and $\sigma_n$ converge? This looks intuitive for me, but I cannot make a rigorous prove. Proof that total derivative is the only function that can be added to Lagrangian without changing the EOM So I was reading this:  and while the answers for the first question are good, nobody gave much attention to the second one. In fact, people only said that it can be proved without giving any proof or any.  So, if I have a Lagrangian and ADD an arbitrary function of $\dot{q}$, $q$ and $t$ in such a way that the equations of motion are the same, does this extra function MUST be a total time derivative?   EDIT Ok, I changed my question a little bit:  Question: If I have a function that obeys the Euler-Lagrange equation off-shell, this implies that my function is a time derivative? (This was used in Qmechanic's answer of this other question: , equation 14.)  Also, why people only talk about things that change the Lagrangian only by a total derivative? If this is not always the case that keeps the equation of motion the same, so why is it so important? And why in the two questions I posted about the same statement on Landau&amp;Lifshitz's mechanics book only consider this kind of change in the Lagrangian? Is there some rare language construct I haven't encountered (like the few I've learned recently, some on Stack Overflow) in C# to get a value representing the current iteration of a foreach loop?  For instance, I currently do something like this depending on the circumstances:  int i = 0; foreach (Object o in collection) {     // ...     i++; }