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On 2013-10-04 02:44, Arne Vajhøj allegedly wrote:
> On 10/3/2013 1:57 AM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
>> On 2013-10-02 16:42, Andreas Leitgeb allegedly wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Having worked with with JODA in the past, I *strongly* recommend you
>> made use of it, regardless of the circumstances.
> 
> Joda has a very good reputation.
> 
> I have used Joda at a few occasions and I must admit that I find
> it over-engineered.

I don't know about that. All that date and time stuff is nigh-insanely
complicated. Relative to that, Joda-Time is rather simple, and it does
the job. I have also found it pleasurable to use, in terms of coding.
YMMV with regards to the latter, but chances are it won't w.r.t. the
former; hence my unadorned recommendation.

-- 
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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