I remember reading this article: http://noda-time.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-wrong-with-datetime-anyway.html a while back and really appreciating date time & time zone libraries. Also after reading news of the leap second triggering a bug on a bunch of systems I now question all assumptions I make about our representations of time. I can no longer say that a minute is 60 seconds long with a straight face. Next up I guess we programmers have a year 2038 problem to deal with too. This library will be a big deal to write but there thankfully there should be a lot of existing knowledge to learn from.
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:10:21 -0400 From: l...@debethencourt.com To: s...@scientician.net CC: rust-dev@mozilla.org Subject: Re: [rust-dev] lib: Is anybody working on the datetime library? Hello Bardur, Thank you so much for the reference resource of JSR-310 and its design docs.I looked over it briefly and it is indeed very valuable. It was listed in the wiki page, but the link was to the former home of it. I have updated it. Since nobody has claimed this module, I will start working on this module tomorrow Saturday.Is that OK? Please, please, I would love more comments and ideas. Will start asking for reviews once I have some code to show. Thanks,Luis On 13 September 2013 00:57, Bardur Arantsson <s...@scientician.net> wrote: On 2013-09-12 22:12, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm interested in helping with some module development. A good way to learn > Rust by using it and help Rust at the same time. > > Of the wanted modules in this page: > https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Libs > I see that this page does have a link to design docs for JSR-310 which is probably a good bet as to a usable DateTime API design (for Java at least). I just thought I'd mention that the documentation for the "nearly final" (i.e. barring serious bugs) API has been released at: http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/technotes/guides/datetime/index.html Even if this is for Java, the design decisions about how the conepts of date/time are modeled (Instant vs. *DateTime, Periods, Durations, etc.) would apply in any language. They are also all essential concepts when working seriously with date/time even though the distinctions may not appear so at first. (I should mention that the lead on the JSR-310 spec was also the author of JodaTime which gets much deserved credit by Java developers for bringing date/time manipulation on the JVM out of the dark ages of java.util.Date. JSR-310 is a slightly reworked/simplified version of that API, so it's a sort of "what are the essentials?" version of JodaTime.) Regards, _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
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