Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > Nevertheless I didn't understand whether > Joda time is able to represent such a date as 1.500.000.000 B.C, even > with a (much) lower precision. Remember that I want to keep a single > representation (i.e. a single number) for every date, and I don't > want to switch to variant schemas for dates before/after a certain > threshold. Joda-Time really doesn't provide any support for dates beyond the specified range. Which I'd like to look at again in JSR-310.
> Second question: I need to put those dates into a database. I've read > about the Hibernate contrib, but I'm worried about being 0.8 and last > updated more than one year ago. Furthermore, I'm using Hibernate, but > hidden behind the Java Persistence API; and I could have some > constraints (that at the moment I can't relax) about storing those > dates as plain numbers or even strings (i.e. a number stringified), > for instance when exporting XML files. I presume that converting a > Joda date to/from an integer is not an issue. I think the best thing is to checkout subversion. Additional classes have been added, and they may well cover your use cases. The website probably needs a refresh. Stephen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Joda-interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest
