Thanks Jorge! We just started using JodaTime and it's definitely everything we wanted from a Time API. Good Find!!!
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Kris Nuttycombe <[email protected]>wrote: > > I'm also using joda-time, and very pleased with it. In fact, I use it > in my Lift project - via JPA with the provided Hibernate extensions > for mapping of DateTime, Period, etc. > > Kris > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:54 PM, TylerWeir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > For an internal project I used JodaTime, twas a dream. > > > > I have switched to using MappedLong along with Unix time for dates > > now. > > > > ( hooray for ancedotes! ) > > > > On Mar 31, 3:21 pm, Jorge Ortiz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was on IRC trying to help Clemens with this. The name > (MappedDateTime), > >> targetSQLType (java.sql.Types.TIMESTAMP), and type (extends > >> MappedField[java.util.Date, _]) of this class suggests millisecond > precision > >> (java.sql.Timestamp and java.util.Date have millisecond precision). > However, > >> methods jdbcFriendly and real_convertToJDBCFriendly use java.sql.Date, > which > >> has only day precision. > >> > >> If the intent is day precision, then calling the class DateTime is > probably > >> misleading. If the intent is millisecond precision, then we have a bug. > >> > >> <rant> > >> > >> Which brings up the larger issue of the brokennes of the Java Date/Time > API. > >> Java 7 will hopefully be getting a newer/better one, but for those of us > >> stuck on Java 5/6, Joda Time is much preferable to the native Date/Time > API. > >> It more clearly represents foundational concepts like instants (March > 31, > >> 2009 at 12:15.000pm UTC), partials (March 3 or 7:15pm), intervals (the > space > >> between two instants), durations (1000 milliseconds), periods (1 month), > and > >> chronologies (calendar systems). It's also completely immutable (oh, you > >> didn't know java.util.Calendar isn't thread-safe? you're lucky to have > never > >> had to track down that bug). > >> > >> </rant> > >> > >> Sigh... it's probably too big of a breaking change to rip out Java > Date/Time > >> from Mapper and Helpers and replace it with Joda Time, but one can > dream... > >> > >> --j > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Clemens Oertel > >> <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > While trying to figure out why my MappedDateTime fields get stored in > >> > the DB with all the time info set to 0, I noticed the following: > >> > >> > MappedDateTime (v. 1.0) "claims" to be a TimeStamp: def targetSQLType > >> > = Types.TIMESTAMP. However, it uses java.sql.Date for its JDBC- > >> > friendly converted version, not java.sql.TimeStamp. If I read the > >> > java.sql.Date documentation correctly, java.sql.Date does set all time > >> > information to 0, since the SQL DATE type only stores dates, by no > >> > times. > >> > >> > Any comment whether this might have something to do with me losing my > >> > time would be appreciated. > >> > >> > Best, > >> > Clemens > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" 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/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
