On 9/2/07, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
As we say around here, some prefer the mother and some prefer the
daughter. There's no accounting for taste. etc. That said, the Date
class isn't an object of adoration in committee meetings. Yet what's
done is done.
A DateFormatter would be quite useful for parse/format functionality.
I can think of a few times when I have worked with buggy hand-rolled
dateFormatters (and refactored the implementation code to use a
SimpleDateFormat (Java) on the server).
java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
(this deserves a new thread)
Garrett
Programming is a collaborative art.
On 9/3/07, Lars T Hansen <lth at acm.org> wrote:
> On 9/3/07, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/3/07, Lars T Hansen <lth at acm.org> wrote:
> > > On 9/2/07, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> As we say around here, some prefer the mother and some prefer the
> daughter. There's no accounting for taste. etc. That said, the Date
> class isn't an object of adoration in committee meetings. Yet what's
> done is done.
>
A DateFormatter would be quite useful for parse/format functionality.
I can think of a few times when I have worked with buggy hand-rolled
dateFormatters (and refactored the implementation code to use a
SimpleDateFormat (Java) on the server).
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
(this deserves a new thread)
Garrett
--
Programming is a collaborative art.
> Your remarks have been noted. We'll see where it goes.
>
> --lars
>
--
Programming is a collaborative art.
On 9/3/07, Lars T Hansen <lth at acm.org> wrote:
A DateFormatter would be quite useful for parse/format functionality. I can think of a few times when I have worked with buggy hand-rolled dateFormatters (and refactored the implementation code to use a SimpleDateFormat (Java) on the server). java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
(this deserves a new thread)
Garrett
Programming is a collaborative art.