Hi Paul

>> I’m in the process of migrating most of my old projects to use Java 8’s 
>> java.time.* classes for representing date and time (replacing NSTimestamp 
>> with LocalDateTime etc.).
>> 
>> This works great—apart from one problem: java.time.DateTimeFormatter, the 
>> formatter class used to format the java.time classes, doesn't inherit from 
>> java.text.Format which WOString expects for it’s formatter binding.
>> 
>> I’m just wondering if anyone has done something brilliant to solve this 
>> before I go ahead and write a java.text.Format class that wraps 
>> DateTimeFormatter as a workaround? Perhaps we should modify ERXWOString to 
>> allow DateTimeFormatter? Although that might be problematic since wonder 
>> targets java 7.
> 
> Wonder 7 targets Java 8. Also, Johann has started some work on using the new 
> date and time API, so take a look at these:

That’s great news!

> 
> https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder/issues/755
> https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder/pull/756
> 
> He hasn’t looked at component support yet, but perhaps you could join that 
> effort.

I’d love to :)

- hugi
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