Thanks a lot Stephen, that pretty much does exactly what I want! On 11/22/08, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a related project http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/related.html > that handles non-working days. That may be your easiest solution. > > Writing a chronology is basically creating a subclass of Chronology or > BaseChronology and implementing as many methods as you can/want. For > example, you may only care about dates and not times. > > The classes in the field package provide most of the common fields that > you need. The basic concept is that you are interpretting the long > millisecond value to something meaningful. Its a big task though (with > time zones causing even more problems). > > Stephen > > > > Ron Olson wrote: > > Hello all- > > > > I'm interested in using Joda in a project where we have some specific > > calendar requirements, and I've been going through the Java Docs but > > I'm not sure I'm looking in the right places to determine whether what > > I want to do is feasible or not. > > > > Basically, I want to create a "business" calendar that calculates > > dates based on days of the week, excluding holidays and weekends; thus > > if today is Friday, 2 days from now is Tuesday in this particular > > calendar. What would also be nice is some way to also feed it specific > > holidays so that they would not be considered when calculating date > > ranges. > > > > I know I could create my own calendar class that does all this, but I > > don't want to have to provide a facade and suddenly be responsible for > > providing methods for all the functions in the member DateTime class. > > > > I was looking at the Chronology and derived classes as a way of doing > > it, considering that's how the various built-in chronologies > > (Buddhist, Islamic, etc.) do it, and even the docs suggest this is > > possible (it mentions a WeirdChronology with a week of 10 days and a > > month of 40 days), but it doesn't mention any particular strategies > > for doing this. > > > > Might anyone have any tips, suggestions, etc., on how to write a > > custom Chronology class? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ron > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Joda-interest mailing list > > Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Joda-interest mailing list > Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest >
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