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I'm writing a file that requires dates to be in decimal format: 2007-04-24T13:18:09 becomes 39196.554270833331000 Does anyone have a time formatter that will do this (Decimal time is what VB/Office, etc. use)? Basic code goes like follows: final DateTime date = new DateTime(2007,…

Anyone done this and can share? I see an option or two but want to know what others have accomplished.

I want to convince the architecture manager to include the joda time jar in our product. Do you know any disadvantages in using it? I think joda time needs to be constantly updated because of the files that it includes. And that is a disadvantage. Maybe I am wrong. Could you provide some …

Is it possible to get the previous and next DST transition timestamp with the Java Calendar/Date/TimeZone API? With Joda-Time I can write: DateMidnight today = new DateMidnight(2009, 2, 24); DateTimeZone zone = today.getZone(); DateTime previousTransition = new DateTime(zone.previousTransit…

I'm creating a web based system which will be used in countries from all over the world. One type of data which must be stored is dates and times. What are the pros and cons of using the Java date and time classes compared to 3rd party libraries such as Joda time ? I guess these third party lib…

I need to model some information about seasons, and need to track them based on start / end date in a year-agnostic way. I.e. I need to allow users to define summer as being between, say, May 15th and September 10th, and do that for all years. I'll need to do a lot of checking of the type isTh…

I would like to find out the date of the Monday in this year's ISO week 1 (For 2009 this would be Monday, Dec 29 2008). I'm sure that joda-time can handle this, but I just can't figure out the API (maybe it's just too late). Can anyone help? Thanks!

Is there a API method in JodaTime to see whether a DateTime is within [start, end], i.e. the boundary is included? Only thing I found was new Interval(start, end).contains(dateTime) but this seems to give false if dateTime equals end.

I'm trying to write a simple utility method for adding aninteger number of days to a Joda time instant . Here is my first stab. /** * Adds a number of days specified to the instant in time specified. * * @param instant - the date to be added to * @param numberOfDaysToAdd - the number of day…

The API doesn't seem promising.

I Have a prepared statement INSERT INTO mst(time) VALUES (?); where time is of type Timestamp in a PostgreSQL database. I am inserting a Joda DateTime object, or I should say I am trying to. I can find no way to convert the DateTime ovject into a java.sql.Timestamp. I have read the Joda do…

I'm trying to implement without success a Date iterator with Joda time. I need something that allows me to iterate all the days form startDate to endDate Do you have any idea on how to do that?

I am pulling timestamps from a file that I want to create a new DateTime for, but I want to create the DateTime at the floor of the hour (or any Joda Period will do). How Can I do this?

I would like to display e.g. 31-12-1999 for years ac and 31-12-(-)2000 for years bc. I spent some time with the joda api's e.g. something like: new DateTimeFormatterBuilder().appendYear(4, 10).appendLiteral("-").appendMonthOfYear(2).appendLiteral("-").appendDayOfMonth(2).toFormatter(); but …

I am looking for a library (open source) like Joda-Time in the Java world. Is there any library like that? Joda-Time is very helpful to calculate date and time. I can add days, weeks, month, year and also can converting date and time easily. I wish there is library like Joda-Time for PHP. …