This is based on user difficulties picked up via Stack Overflow. These methods aim to provide a simpler and faster approach, particularly for cases converting to/from java.util.Date.
For the time cases, the convention of 1970-01-01 is natural and commonly used in many codebases. Stephen On 30 November 2015 at 18:15, Xueming Shen <xueming.s...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi, > > While it is kinda understandable to have LocalDate.toEpochSecond(...) > to get the epoch seconds since 1970.1.1, with the assumption of the > time is at the midnight of that day. It is strange to have the > Local/OffsetTime > to have two public methods with the assumption of the "date" is at epoch > year/month/day. What's the use case/scenario for these two proposed > methods? > > -Sherman > > > On 11/30/2015 06:36 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: >> >> The method Javadoc (specs) for each of the three new methods needs to >> be enhanced. >> >> For the date ones it needs to say >> "The resulting date will have a time component of midnight at the >> start of the day." >> >> For the time ones it needs to say >> "The resulting time will be on 1970-01-01." >> >> Some of the line wrapping in the tests looks like it is not indented >> correctly. >> >> Otherwise looks fine, >> thanks >> Stephen >> >> >> On 30 November 2015 at 11:50, nadeesh tv<nadeesh...@oracle.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Please review a fix for >>> >>> Bug Id -https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143413 >>> >>> Issue - add toEpochSecond methods for efficient access >>> >>> webrev - http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ntv/8143413/webrev.01/ >>> >>> -- Thanks and Regards, >>> Nadeesh TV > > <div id="DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><table style="border-top: 1px solid #aaabb6; margin-top: 10px;"> <tr> <td style="width: 105px; padding-top: 15px;"> <a href="https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail"; target="_blank"><img src="https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/logo-avast-v1.png"; style="width: 90px; height:33px;"/></a> </td> <td style="width: 470px; padding-top: 20px; color: #41424e; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. <br /><a href="https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail"; target="_blank" style="color: #4453ea;">www.avast.com</a> </td> </tr> </table><a href="#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div>
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