Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: How can I use Operand (+ , - ) with Time
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:53:00 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 17
Message-ID: <jevdt4$u3j$1@dont-email.me>
References: <34afdd1f-4549-48a9-878c-8678993e97ed@t30g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> <operator-overloading-20120115135044@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <jev61p$eh7$1@news.albasani.net> <jev9tv$4sf$1@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:45:24 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="qwFw1g9RsQ6TkML5yezG9A"; logging-data="30835"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19gj++ryk0c6m+NYOt1PGAbA4Bb/BYzX6I="
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20111110 Icedove/3.0.11
In-Reply-To: <jev9tv$4sf$1@dont-email.me>
Cancel-Lock: sha1:uVeWeSv04ltkrlKCh6iMYqt+9Yk=
Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11365

On 01/15/2012 02:45 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 01:31 PM, Lew wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> That tends to cause trouble. It's better to use 'java.util.Calendar' and
>> its friends prior to Java 7, and the new time types for 7+.
>>
> I've scanned the Release Notes and API documentation for Oracle's Java
> SE 7 and have been unable to find "new time types for 7+". Will you
> provide pointers for me?
> Thanks.

After some more digging I find JSR 310: Date and Time API.
I seems to be in the Early Draft Review stage.
<http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=310>
<http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/threeten/index.php?title=ThreeTen>