doing date and time in Java

Reference Implementation: Java (archive)
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Dear all,

It seems I am not the only person who thinks date and tme handling is
bad in Java....see the Joda effort at
http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/index.html

I think we should use these libraries - they claim to get rid of many of
the bugs etc of Java calndar classes; also they are directly ISO8601
based - excatly what we want in openEHR.

Rong and others - do you have any objection to using this library in the
Release 1 upgrade? I think it will reduce the coding time, and increase
the quality.

- thomas

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Hi all,

It does seem to be a solid API replacing Date and Calendar from jdk.
Pity that it's not an apache commons library, but people have been
mentioning a possible JSR to include Joda-time into jdk. (see
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mister__m/archive/2006/02/tiger_and_dates.html)

I am in favor of giving it a try in the Release 1 upgrade.

Rong

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