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Subject: Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type...
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:22:23 -0700
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On 10/1/2013 11:11 AM, markspace wrote:
> On 10/1/2013 10:29 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> It's hard for me to
>> believe, that there wasn't any common need for representing intervals
>> of time in a mixture of units, and not just seconds.
>
>
> I think the new JOGL stuff has an interval (they call it a Duration).
> But I don't think you're missing anything.  The Calendar class is pretty
> widely derided as missing a lot of important features, afaik.
>
>


I really loused that up.  It's JODA time, and the class is Period.

<http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/api/java/time/Period.html>