The Joda date support looks interesting (just took a brief glance, but I can see where it would be valuable).
I'm wondering, though, if there is still not some place in [lang] for some basic utilities to help make the JDK Date and Calendar classes easlier to use. I'm thinking that this would be a filler for those who can't for whatever reason move over to using Joda. Unless of course you want to not make it easier for folks to not use Joda :) Having said that, though, I think we should try to limit the scope of date/calendar stuff in [lang]. We certainly don't want to reinvent a wheel that Joda would have already invented. Steven Caswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] a.k.a Mungo Knotwise of Michel Delving "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them..." > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:scolebourne@;btopenworld.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:34 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: [lang] Dates/DateRanges [was Re: Re: Conversion utilities] > > > <blatant-self-advertising> > http://joda.sourceforge.net has code for handling > TimePeriods and comparing dates (In fact its a complete > rewrite of dates from the ground up). Only at 0.8 release > though. </blatant-self-advertising> > > This is my biggest concern with putting Date and Calendar > code into [lang]. There is a lot that can be done to try to > fix up the current Date/Calendar classes. But how much is > worth it? Where do we in [lang] draw the line between useful > methods, and the Joda complete rewrite? > > Stephen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The problem with the range interface when relating to dates is that > > with > dates you would want to specify a field to give the range on, > ex: days, months, weeks, etc. > > > > Travis > > > > ---- Original Message ---- > > From: Robert Leland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: 2002-11-14 > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Conversion utilities > > > > Henri Yandell wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Jeff Varszegi wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Janek, > > >> > > >>I made an interface called Range that is supported by > classes called > > >>ComparableRange etc. The ComparableRange class can use > any objects > > >>that support Comparable (or, alternately, any objects with a > > >>supplied Comparator), and I also made specific versions > for Date and > > >>Double to > > > > Sounds like you could coordinating with the > commons-validator package > > there is already a intRange(), floatRange(), in the > GenerocValidator > > class. It could definately make use of your Range interface though ! > > > > > > -Rob > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
