[Lift] Re: MappedDateTime - Do we have a Date? Or is it a timestamp?

2009-04-01 Thread Josh Suereth
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 kris.nuttyco...@gmail.comwrote: I'm also using joda-time, and very pleased with it. In fact, I use it in my Lift project -

[Lift] Re: MappedDateTime - Do we have a Date? Or is it a timestamp?

2009-04-01 Thread Viktor Klang
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Timothy Perrett timo...@getintheloop.euwrote: 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). LOL!!! Its not thread

[Lift] Re: MappedDateTime - Do we have a Date? Or is it a timestamp?

2009-04-01 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
Well, I guess this bug needs updated: http://liftweb.lighthouseapp.com/projects/26102-lift/tickets/28-mappeddatetime-does-not-store-time-portion-in-derby-10420 I would vote for JodaTime. Having written some scheduling apps in Java all I can say about java.util.{Date,Calender} is WTF? Derek On

[Lift] Re: MappedDateTime - Do we have a Date? Or is it a timestamp?

2009-03-31 Thread Jorge Ortiz
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

[Lift] Re: MappedDateTime - Do we have a Date? Or is it a timestamp?

2009-03-31 Thread TylerWeir
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 jorge.or...@gmail.com wrote: I was on IRC trying to help Clemens with this. The name (MappedDateTime),

[Lift] Re: MappedDateTime - Do we have a Date? Or is it a timestamp?

2009-03-31 Thread Timothy Perrett
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). LOL!!! Its not thread safe!? Thats somewhat of an oversight isnt it...

[Lift] Re: MappedDateTime - Do we have a Date? Or is it a timestamp?

2009-03-31 Thread Kris Nuttycombe
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 tyler.w...@gmail.com wrote: For an internal project I used JodaTime,