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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