Java provides two different APIs to deal with dates and times, java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar. Both of these APIs are missing necessary operations that should be easily doable with dates and times, such as addition and substraction, They also lack several important classes such as time intervals, durations and periods. They don’t allow for the creation [...]
Archives for January, 2008
Argentina’ DST: software vendors’ reactions
Greetings! As almost everyone must know by now, Argentinian government decided to implement Daylight Saving Time for this summer, starting on December 30th and ending on March 16th. This decision was taken on December 27th, leaving only three days for everybody to take the appropriate action. Three days on December. Three days really close to [...]
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