On 2013-09-12 22:12, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm interested in helping with some module development. A good way to learn
> Rust by using it and help Rust at the same time.
> 
> Of the wanted modules in this page:
> https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Libs
> 

I see that this page does have a link to design docs for JSR-310 which
is probably a good bet as to a usable DateTime API design (for Java at
least). I just thought I'd mention that the documentation for the
"nearly final" (i.e. barring serious bugs) API has been released at:

   http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/technotes/guides/datetime/index.html

Even if this is for Java, the design decisions about how the conepts of
date/time are modeled (Instant vs. *DateTime, Periods, Durations, etc.)
would apply in any language. They are also all essential concepts when
working seriously with date/time even though the distinctions may not
appear so at first.

(I should mention that the lead on the JSR-310 spec was also the author
of JodaTime which gets much deserved credit by Java developers for
bringing date/time manipulation on the JVM out of the dark ages of
java.util.Date. JSR-310 is a slightly reworked/simplified version of
that API, so it's a sort of "what are the essentials?" version of JodaTime.)

Regards,


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