Re: [lang] Has anyone thought about a TimeUtils package?

[Sean Schofield]

Please be warned, that Date is a fragile/controversial issue, since
1. The java SimpleDateFormatter is not thread safe
2. Dates have many locale specific representation.

Indeed, Sun's dates are pretty rubbish. Joda has a 0.8 release, which has
thread safe formatting including time zone handling and locale handling. It
still needs more work though.

Stephen

What is not thread safe about SimpleDateFormatter? If this is true that seems kind of serious! (I will take a look at the source tonight but it might help if you gave me a hint)

Anyways, this thread safety business sounds like something that might be useful to a lot of programmers out there. I will take a look at what you've done in joda and see if I can't figure it out. Maybe we could make a thread-safe version of SimpleDate Formatter be part of the proposed TimeUtils/DateUtils/whatever in commons-lang?

Thoughts?

- sean


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