Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne <at> joda.org> writes:

> The problem is explaining the issue in the API. How do you easily
> communicate that a day might not be a fixed number of milliseconds (it
> may vary by zone, or by chronology).

In terms of days, I agree. They're tricky and the docs just have to say that.

However, since I was dealing in hours, I don't think that was a problem.

 
> I am investigating adding new classes at the moment for each period
> type, such as a class for Days, and another class for Hours.

I saw your post on that, and it might very well help.

Frankly, the method I was looking for was a companion to Period.hours on
Duration (Duration.hours) that would construct a duration given an integer. It
would just do the millisecond arithmatic for you.


> Any other feedback? (from anyone on the list!)

Another thing that might be nice is to expose the conversion constants
publically (minutes -> seconds, hours->millis, etc). At least if I had to do the
math myself, I wouldn't have to redefine 3600 in yet another application.

jason





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