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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.