Best guess: roundDown 01:30 goes to 00:00 roundUp 01:30 goes to 12:00 roundDown 13:30 goes to 12:00 roundUp 13:30 goes to 00:00 next day
Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Caswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jakarta Commons Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:45 AM Subject: RE: [lang] DateUtils round and truncate functionality with Calendar.AM_PM > I don't know that rounding to AM_PM makes sense. I'm having a difficult time > coming up with any rounding scenario that makes sense. I think it makes > sense to say that the boundary is 12:00PM, and that times before that value > cause round down, and times after that value cause round up. > > But what does "round down" mean? What does "round up" mean? Maybe someone > who has a use case for this functionality can provide a good suggestion. > > Steven Caswell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > a.k.a Mungo Knotwise of Michel Delving > "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them..." > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 6:32 PM > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [lang] DateUtils round and truncate > > functionality with Calendar.AM_PM > > > > > > I don't know what it should do offhand. Perhaps you could > > suggest sensible behaviour? > > > > Stephen > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Steven Caswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does anyone know how the DateUtils methods round and > > truncate are suppose to behave when passed Calendar.AM_PM? > > I've tried several combinations of round, and they all seem > > to truncate instead. There is nothing in the Javadocs for > > these methods about the expected result, and I'm not able to > > tell if the methods are working properly. > > > > > > Steven Caswell > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is > > our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late > > violation of it -- for the protection of our property, > > acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers > > and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have > > taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall > > cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their > > being renewed shall be removed, and not before." - Thomas Jefferson > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
