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From: Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type...
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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.