Joda time key concepts can be easily mapped to XSD Date and Time data types.
http://www.w3schools.com/Schema/schema_dtypes_date.asp http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/key_instant.html http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/key_partial.html http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/key_chronology.html http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/key_duration.html /Sanjaya ----- Original Message ---- From: Sanjaya Karunasena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Axis Dev <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 2:17:50 PM Subject: Representing a Birthday in a distributed scenario Hi All, Usually to represent some thing like a Birthday java Date class is used. However, it internally make use of a Calendar instance in most of the operations. This means unless we send timezone information in a Web Service request with the birthday, there is a time window, when the client and the server is in two different timezones, the day get represented inaccurately. I came across this library (http://joda-time.sourceforge.net) which doesn't suffer from such design flaws. (http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/key_partial.html) Thoughts? Probably we need to fix ADB to handle this. /Sanjaya
