I agree with the concept - there needs to be a better way to work with dates/times. Two things concern me about it: it re-invents the wheel - ICU4J already has a good selection of calendars that are compatible with java.util.Calendar, and it bases its design on a data-interchange format (a bad idea IMO).
The same end result could be achieved with a lot less code by writing thin wrappers around existing classes to make date/time handling more fluent. That's my opinion anyway. I have some POC code I can submit to Jira. It's flexible enough to wrap the standard java.util classes, or ICU4J classes, or Joda Time classes - users can choose their flavor. The advantage to having code like that in Lang is it gives you the ability to construct useful ratio types, like MPH, $/HR, Hertz, etc. -Adrian --- On Tue, 4/13/10, Gary Gregory <ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com> wrote: > I hope you chime in to Joda-Time to > make it better since the lead developer is working on the > new date time APIs for Java 7. > > Gary Gregory > Senior Software Engineer > Seagull Software > email: ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com > email: ggreg...@apache.org > www.seagullsoftware.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Adrian Crum [mailto:adrian.c...@yahoo.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:21 > > To: Commons Developers List > > Subject: RE: [LANG] Question about V3 > > > > I'm not a big fan of Joda Time. > > > > -Adrian > > > > --- On Tue, 4/13/10, Gary Gregory <ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com> > wrote: > > > > > From: Gary Gregory <ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com> > > > Subject: RE: [LANG] Question about V3 > > > To: "Commons Developers List" <dev@commons.apache.org> > > > Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 6:27 AM > > > Hi Adrian, > > > > > > For date and time utilities I have been > advocating the use > > > of Joda-Time [1] over [lang]. > > > > > > [1] http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > Gary Gregory > > > Senior Software Engineer > > > Seagull Software > > > email: ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com > > > email: ggreg...@apache.org > > > www.seagullsoftware.com > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Adrian Crum [mailto:adrian.c...@yahoo.com] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 00:05 > > > > To: Commons Developers List > > > > Subject: Re: [LANG] Question about V3 > > > > > > > > Thanks Jörg! > > > > > > > > I have a patch that adds some value objects > that make > > > working with dates and > > > > times easier. I will submit it to Jira as > soon as it > > > is back up. > > > > > > > > -Adrian > > > > > > > > --- On Mon, 4/12/10, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > From: Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> > > > > > Subject: Re: [LANG] Question about V3 > > > > > To: dev@commons.apache.org > > > > > Date: Monday, April 12, 2010, 11:48 PM > > > > > Hi Adrian, > > > > > > > > > > Adrian Crum wrote at Monday, 12. April > 2010 > > > 18:20: > > > > > > > > > > > I'm looking at a recent trunk > checkout of > > > lang, and it > > > > > looks like some > > > > > > code exists for a forthcoming > version 3. Is > > > that > > > > > correct? > > > > > > > > > > Yes. > > > > > > > > > > > If so, is there > > > > > > a proposed release date? > > > > > > > > > > Probably this year ;-) > > > > > > > > > > - Jörg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
