Well, you may be right about some missing javadoc features, but do you have
to flame about it knowing that they work hard and give us this incredible
tool freely ? I'm maybe to sensitive lol

As for format, define your own, it's easy:
  @Provides @Named("BlogPostFormat")
  DateTimeFormat getDateTimeFormat() {
    return DateTimeFormat.getFormat("MMMM dd, yyyy");
  }

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Greg Dougherty
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I was looking through com.google.gwt.i18n.client : Enum
> DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat, because I wanted to figure out why my
> dates were coming out in such a useless format (sorry, but while yyyy-
> mm-dd is a lovely format if you want dates that can be textually
> sorted by a computer, it's a crappy format if you want the dates read
> by a human).  So I clicked on the JavaDoc for DATE_SHORT.  What did I
> get?
>
> public static final DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat DATE_SHORT
>
> Wow, thank you.  How completely useless.  That doesn't even rise to
> the lovel of "phoning it in."
>
> I know the person responsible for DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat
> knows how to write a reasonable JavaDoc, because it includes this:
>
> RFC_2822
>
> public static final DateTimeFormat.PredefinedFormat RFC_2822
>
>    RFC 2822 date format, fixed across all locales.
>    Example: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:54:50 -0700
>    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-3.3
>
> It's too bad that there a 2 valid comments, and 34 worthless ones.
>
> Might I suggest that the GWT "Coding Standards" would do well to focus
> on requiring people to write readable and understandable code (which
> means having comments that explain what you're doing and why), rather
> than merely obsessing on whether people use tabs or spaces?
>
> Greg
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Google Web Toolkit" group.
> To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> [email protected].
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
>
>


-- 
Christian Goudreau
www.arcbees.com

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Google Web Toolkit" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected].
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.

Reply via email to