Joda-Time and JSR-310 are similar APIs but different implementations. It's the same guy behind both, here he is explaining why he wanted 310 instead of just standardizing Joda:
http://blog.joda.org/2009/11/why-jsr-310-isn-joda-time_4941.html?m=1 On Friday, September 13, 2013, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > Cool! > > Great and awesome feedback. The summary is that Joda-Time is what we > should aspire to have. > > My goal is to first cover the "most common use cases", and as Corey says, > "easy to use correctly". > > After that I can start considering the corner cases like bya and mya. > Which sound very fun and interesting, but not high priority. > Hopefully by then I won't be too consumed by the question of what is Time. > > Thanks, will keep you guys updated, > Luis > > > > On 13 September 2013 16:20, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Additionally, > > Be able to convert "bya" to "mya" ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bya > > The short scale is now commonly used, btw... but also need to deal with > this for conversions: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales > > There should be a preference boolean for conversion output for short or > long scale... especially concerning above a thousand million. > > That's enough to get you going with some wild ideas that Jodatime does not > handle. > > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: > > One idea and use case for Paleontologists and Geologists coming over to > Rust in droves... :-) > > Generically, just be able to handle simple Geologic addition and > subtraction against an Epoch itself (reference date) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(reference_date) using known > abbreviations. > > And additionally, store, understand, and output them: > > B.Y.B.P = Billion Years Before Present > M.Y.B.P = Million Years Before Present > > > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Aaron Dandy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I remember reading this article: > http://noda-time.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-wrong-with-datetime-anyway.html a > while back and really appreciating date time & time zone libraries. Also > after reading news of the leap second triggering a bug on a bunch of > systems I now question all assumptions I make about our representations of > time. I can no longer say that a minute is 60 seconds long with a straight > face. Next up I guess we programmers have a year 2038 problem to deal with > too. This library will be a big deal to write but there thankfully there > should be a lot of existing knowledge to learn from. > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:10:21 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rust-dev] lib: Is anybody working on the datetime library? > > > Hello Bardur, > > Thank you so much for the reference resource of JSR-310 and its design > docs. > I looked over it briefly and it is indeed very valuable. > > It was listed in the wiki page, but the link was to the former home of it. > I have updated it. > > Since nobody has claimed this module, I will start working on this module > tomorrow Saturday. > Is that OK? > > Please, please, I would love more comments and ideas. Will start asking > for reviews once I have some code to show. > > Thanks, > Luis > > > > > > On 13 September 2013 00:57, Bardur Arantsson <spam@scientici > >
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