That does make things a little clearer. Perhaps it should be it's own class, with a parse and a format method, a la SimpleDateFormat.
> > Ahh. > > I like the yesterday etc part, but name definitely needs to change. Also I > would want a formatter for it (somehow) so we can turn a Date into > 'yesterday', '9 days ago' etc. > > Hen > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Serge Knystautas wrote: > > > Gary Gregory wrote: > > > I am not that crazy with anything of the form "parseProduct". What if > > > there was, or surely going to be 2, then 10 such methods for CVS. Then a > > > CvsUtils or some such class would be better. Does this belongs in a > > > separate class if not in the sandbox? > > > > Sorry for not jumping into this thread earlier. The DateUtils is my > > submission, so I should probably explain parseCVS... > > > > It does NOT parse any dates from CVS, so it isn't related to ant or any > > other tool. From using CVS, you can checkout code as of "yesterday", "a > > week ago", or "last Thursday." CVS parses this human date expression > > and calculates that date for you. That is the behavior I was trying to > > emulate... support a more human readable date parser. It's not a great > > name, but CVS was the language parsing rule I was based on. > > > > I've got no special urge to keep it in lang, if others do not want. > > > > -- > > Serge Knystautas > > Lokitech >>> software . strategy . design >> http://www.lokitech.com > > p. 301.656.5501 > > e. [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] > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
