Yes, I'm just reiterating my position in the thread.  I've used
XMLgregorianCalendar in other places (dspace-rdf) and it meets the ISO
spec and DCMI guidelines for dates. We should use standard JVM tools
when they are better than ours.

Mark

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:07 AM, TAYLOR Robin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hope nobody minds but I'm interested in continuing the conversation that I 
> was only able to pay partial attention to in yesterday's developer meeting 
> http://duraspace.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2010-04-28. Am I correct in 
> understanding that we would be looking to replace the current functionality 
> of DCDate, that revolves around java.util.Date, with the functionality 
> provided by XMLGregorianCalendar ? I wasn't aware of this class before but at 
> first glance it looks a good fit. Assuming this is something we want to 
> pursue is this a post 1.6.1 ambition, or more immediate ?
>
> Cheers, Robin.
>
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