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Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type...

From	Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Searching for a "TimeInterval" type...
Date	2013-10-02 14:42 +0000
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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

Thread

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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