J. B. Rainsberger wrote:
Stephen Colebourne wrote:
2) The toXxx() methods on Instant.
Instant does have a time zone (as pointed out below) but this is
really an artifact of implementing the interface. In practice,
Instant should be thought of as having no time zone.
I find this curious. If an Instant should have no time zone, then how
do you describe the instant 10/29/2006 1:34:32.192 EDT? Is it just
10/29/2006 02:34:32.192, meaning sometime during the 3rd hour of the day?
Its a semantic distinction in my mind. Instant represents a number of
milliseconds from 1970-01-01Z. We currently represent the Instant as
being in the UTC time zone, but in concept its 'duration from the epoch'.
> how do you describe the instant 10/29/2006 1:34:32.192 EDT ?
With a DateTime, not an Instant.
> Is it just 10/29/2006 02:34:32.192
No, as that is a floating, non-time-zone time.
Stephen
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