On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Benedikt Ritter <b...@systemoutprintln.de> wrote: >> But i found only discussions about duration& joda-time dated 2004. >> >> (http://markmail.org/thread/733yqv5zwzsngj3j) >> Now i really need in Duration functionality (especially such as >> Duration.parse(String)). >> > I heard about joda-time a while ago. My impression is, that the joda project > is not that active anymore (please correct me, if I'm wrong). So I would > vouch for additions to lang regarding durations. What I'm also really > missing in lang.time is conversation of durations. For example: > DurationUtils.convertToMinutes(long seconds).
Joda Time is imho a great lib. Before a few weeks I replaced all the JDK stuff with Joda and it really saved my life. There was a release in July 2011 or so and my impression is more this lib is stable and does not need many releases. Actually I can't imagine a feature I miss in Joda at the moment. > >> I don't understand the Commons point on this issue. >> >> - Commons Lang doesn't need in own implementation of this >> functionality and you suggest use joda-time? >> - Commons Lang needs in simple& lightweight implementation of Duration? >> >> Also i cannot find correspond issue in jira (but Eric Crampton in 2004 >> wrote about >> "Commons Lang task list that there is a need for DateRange/Duration >> classes"). > > As you said, it is a while ago, since this was discussed. So let's review > this topic again. > > What are your thoughts? Hen (who is mainly behind lang) and Gary already mentioned, they don't want to replicate Joda code into [lang]. I don't see any reasons why we should do that now. Instead I would prefer to mark the time package as deprecated and point users to joda. time does rely on jdk classes and as I have found out by own experience, it is dangerous to work with them. Cheers Christian > > Regards > Benedikt > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
