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

[Sean Schofield]

I think we should stick with the existing syntax for using SimpleDateFormat
since that is what people already know, I can't think of a powerful reason
to not stick with it.

Agreed.

I like the preset patterns in DateUtils like ISO8601_TIME_PATTERN, however,
I also wish that there was a way to register new patterns globally.

I agree that the ISO patterns are nice. We probaly want another few hard-coded formats and the ability to add more as you say. Perhaps we could have a static method for adding a custom format that would be available from then on out through another static method for formating using the custom format.

I work
with MSSQL Server, and have to convert their pattern a lot: 2002-12-12
23:25:29.93. However, I guess we wouldn't want to dump in a million
patterns into the core code base.

Yeah we should probably resist the temptation to make this too specialized. Using the custom methods you could achieve the same thing by making the SQL server a constant in your code and then use the custom methods. Deciding which formats make it into DateUtils will be a bit sticky (I predict.)

- sean


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