Hello: I am pointing to Joda-Time in general for date and time issues as it is a comprehensive open source solution. It is my understanding that we have not enhanced [lang] in this department because we do not want to end up with a Joda-Time-like component within [lang].
Thank you, Gary ________________________________ From: Alex Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 12:01 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [jira] Commented: (LANG-335) Comparisons of Dates and Calendars to second precision I've looked at the Joda-Time API and it doesn't look like there's anything that would be nearly as efficient as the simple bit-math that's used to do the calculations in the JDK implementation. Admittedly I'm not that familiar with the library, so if there is a better way, I'm open to being corrected. Alex Marshall Software Developer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 137350791 Skype username: alex.marshall Office: 1-888-286-2010 Ext 229 Fax: 1-780-484-0538 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIAL: This message, including any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged information, which is intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the original message. Gary Gregory (JIRA) wrote: [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-335?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12497532 ] Gary Gregory commented on LANG-335: ----------------------------------- Would Joda-TIme help here? Comparisons of Dates and Calendars to second precision ------------------------------------------------------ Key: LANG-335 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-335 Project: Commons Lang Issue Type: New Feature Affects Versions: 2.3 Environment: Windows, JDK 1.6.0, Eclipse 3.2 Reporter: Alex Marshall Priority: Trivial The o.a.c.lang.time.DateUtils should have functions for comparing dates and Calendars to only second precision instead of millisecond. The motivation for this is comparison of dates and Calendars in objects both before and after the objects have been committed to and retrieved from a database. In theory the objects should be equal if 'equals' is run on them, but in practice they are not because the date fields do not have exactly the same millisecond values after they've been persisted to a database since times in many databases are only maintained to second-level precision (and without TimeZone information in many cases, to boot!)
