Support Forums: Message List - JSR-310 date and time API early draft review

DST changes for 2011

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:27:16 -0500

DST changes for 2011 -- not simple.

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Re: Working with date ranges

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:17:39 -0400

It's unfortunate that there's still no concept of a date range or time interval in this new API. That code is very inelegant.

A few feature requests

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:26:48 -0400

Creation:
I'll be adding something for now().

Time zone strings:
Allowing method arguments as time zone strings greatly extends a large API. At some point convenience methods have to end.

ToString setting:
These objects...

A few feature requests

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:59:30 -0400

I've read over the spec and I have a few suggestions on what I'd like to see to make it a bit more user friendly.

The main problem I have with Date / Calendar is the large number of helper classes that we need to use for basic...

DateAdjusters.compound() method?

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:21:12 -0500

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Duration vs. Period

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:20:00 -0500

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Re: Why not just use JodaTime?

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:15:12 -0500

Why not just copy and paste all of JodaTime as the starting point?

See http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/why_jsr_310_isn_t

DateAdjusters.compound() method?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:42:41 -0500

The purpose of DateAdjuster seems to be to provide small, simple adjustments to dates. I would like a method to combine DateAdjuster's in a compound class to create more complex behavior....

Duration vs. Period

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:36:08 -0500

Duration and Period seem to be interchangable. I understand that Duration is meant for machines and Period for human consumption. However, while there is a way to convert from Period to Duration, I believe a method to convert from Duration to Period is...

Re: make it simple to understand

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:35:20 -0500

"plus if you depreciated Date class why is it not really taken off yet. Its been there for 12+ years and for last 6 years i have been getting warnign to not use Date class. "

Nothing is ever removed from core Java nor will these...

Re: static of(...) methods ... rename to valueOf(...) ??

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:27:12 -0500

I don't recall when i last preferred short method names over readabilty and consistency in my own code. An API should rate this even higher.

Why not just use JodaTime?

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:19:57 -0500

Why not just copy and paste all of JodaTime as the starting point? JodaTime still seems superior to this JSR if only because it's actually pretty complete and there's a lot of nice convenience classes to do a bunch of stuff on one line.

Re: XMLGregorianCalendar

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:55:37 -0500

I don't see support for XMLGregorianCalendar

We need to add support for conversion here. I'll add this to the TODO. Stephen Colebourne (spec lead)

Re: Enums for months and days...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:52:09 -0500

If there are enums for representing months and days then why have redundant methods? Instead of month.isFebruary() wouldn't month == FEBRUARY be a bit more clear?

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Re: Working with date ranges

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:32:29 -0500

provide an example of how you would work with date ranges

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