Hello all, I've created this repository as a placeholder: https://github.com/luisbg/rust-datetime
It won't have much content for a while since I won't commit until there is at least one usable API function, and I'm currently in the researching and planning stage. Patience. Thanks, Luis On 13 September 2013 21:09, Luis de Bethencourt <l...@debethencourt.com>wrote: > That is a very interesting read. > > We certainly should learn from the experiences of other languages. This > being a good example. > I will be revisiting the linked documents listed in this thread repeatedly. > > Fortunately the issue he mentions about NULLs creating random bugs, is > taken care of by Rust's safety. > > Thanks, > Luis > > > On 13 September 2013 19:21, Jason Fager <jfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Joda-Time and JSR-310 are similar APIs but different >> implementations. It's the same guy behind both, here he is explaining why >> he wanted 310 instead of just standardizing Joda: >> >> http://blog.joda.org/2009/11/why-jsr-310-isn-joda-time_4941.html?m=1 >> >> >> On Friday, September 13, 2013, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: >> >>> Cool! >>> >>> Great and awesome feedback. The summary is that Joda-Time is what we >>> should aspire to have. >>> >>> My goal is to first cover the "most common use cases", and as Corey >>> says, "easy to use correctly". >>> >>> After that I can start considering the corner cases like bya and mya. >>> Which sound very fun and interesting, but not high priority. >>> Hopefully by then I won't be too consumed by the question of what is >>> Time. >>> >>> Thanks, will keep you guys updated, >>> Luis >>> >>> >>> >>> On 13 September 2013 16:20, Thad Guidry <thadgui...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Additionally, >>> >>> Be able to convert "bya" to "mya" ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bya >>> >>> The short scale is now commonly used, btw... but also need to deal with >>> this for conversions: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales >>> >>> There should be a preference boolean for conversion output for short or >>> long scale... especially concerning above a thousand million. >>> >>> That's enough to get you going with some wild ideas that Jodatime does >>> not handle. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Thad Guidry <thadgui...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>> One idea and use case for Paleontologists and Geologists coming over to >>> Rust in droves... :-) >>> >>> Generically, just be able to handle simple Geologic addition and >>> subtraction against an Epoch itself (reference date) >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(reference_date) using known >>> abbreviations. >>> >>> And additionally, store, understand, and output them: >>> >>> B.Y.B.P = Billion Years Before Present >>> M.Y.B.P = Million Years Before Present >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Aaron Dandy <aaron.da...@live.com>wrote: >>> >>> 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 <spam@scientici >>> >>> >
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