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On 2013-10-02 16:42, Andreas Leitgeb allegedly wrote:
> Thanks to mark, Arne & Sebastian for pointing towards Joda and
> future Java 8. It's good to know that this swamp is getting dried,
> but I'll probably not hold my breath for it, and I'll probably stay
> with Calendar for now, but at least I'm now aware to not fully embrace
> it, but only pick minimal functionality from it. I hope I will then be
> able to eventually translate to new date-API once Java 8 arrives.
> 
> Also, I actually (unfortunately) do need to represent mixes of units
> and a day definitely isn't the same as 86400 seconds. Calendar seems
> to support most of what I need. Now, that I know I didn't just miss a
> standard class, I'll do my own for the type of intervals I need. (and
> it seems to me (after looking at mark's link) as if neither Period nor
> Duration fits my bill completely, anyway.)
> 
> Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> wrote:
>>> <http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/api/java/time/Period.html>
>> One nice thing about using Joda would be that your code will stand a 
>> good chance of being easily portable to the new Data and Time API in the 
>> upcoming Java 8 release, which is mostly inspired by Joda time. 
>> Personally, I'd not start anything new based on the current Calendar 
>> class and its relatives.
>>
>> -- Sebastian

Having worked with with JODA in the past, I *strongly* recommend you
made use of it, regardless of the circumstances.

-- 
DF.

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Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-01 17:29 +0000
  Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-10-01 11:11 -0700
    Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-10-01 11:22 -0700
      Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-01 19:51 -0400
      Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-10-02 09:23 +0200
        Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-02 14:42 +0000
          Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-10-03 07:57 +0200
            Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-03 20:44 -0400
              Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-10-05 04:22 +0200
          Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-10-16 19:43 +0200
  Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2013-10-01 21:54 +0200
    Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-02 15:02 +0000
  Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-10-01 22:04 +0200
  Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-01 19:53 -0400
    Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-02 15:12 +0000
      Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2013-10-02 23:25 +0300
        Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-02 23:56 +0000
          Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2013-10-03 17:18 +0300
            Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-03 18:54 +0000
              Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2013-10-03 23:53 +0300
      Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-10-02 23:03 +0200
        Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-03 00:04 +0000
      Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-02 21:36 -0400
        Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-03 21:41 -0400
          Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-10-04 09:17 +0000
            Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-10-04 20:52 -0400

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