> My experience differs from Jorge.
> A generic date should do well, and still give you all the date functions. The only
> problem with storing dates as a number is doing date arithmetic ( say sending an
> email to all people whose birthday is 5 days away) and things like that. It's not a
> tr
> -Original Message-
> From: Jorge Salido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:01 PM
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> Subject: Re: [OT] Storing Birth Date
>
>
stuff I agree with
>
> Other than that, how you store the date is
I would certainly not use timestamps. A timestamp is certainly useful
when you want to record current time (like a snapshot), but not past
dates. And even then be aware of timestamps... And anyway, since
timestamp also contains time data, it is not being efficient (at least
by that standard). Cetai
There are lots of ways to do this, of course, but I have found over the
years that working from a long value works best for me. From there you can
go any direction.
Michael
At 09:46 AM 6/26/2004, Rick Reumann wrote:
Eddie Yan wrote:
Anyone know what is the best practices to store a person
date
Eddie Yan wrote:
Anyone know what is the best practices to store a person
date of birth ? How should we design our detail object, JSP and database
in such way we don't have a messy approached to populate the day,
month and year in Action class to be able to display in JSP during UPDATE
process.
Cur
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Subject: Re: [OT] Storing Birth Date
> I do string - calendar conversion in an action form, its gets and sets
> strings modifying a calendar object which can be then given to the
> action ready to be saved bac
I do string - calendar conversion in an action form, its gets and sets
strings modifying a calendar object which can be then given to the
action ready to be saved back to the model.
private Calendar dob = Calendar.getInstance();
public String getDayOfBirth() {
int dayInt = dob.get(Calend
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