Comments on: Introducing Joda Time: The smart date API

By: shwetha

shwetha — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:47:37 +0000

Hi,
Can anyone please help on how to create only Time (without date) and calculate intervals between 2 times. I need a way to convert a string like 11:30 to time..

By: Luc Bors

Luc Bors — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:33:44 +0000

Hi ana,
No experience on that, but what I learn from the JODA-time wiki (http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/cal_islamic.html) is below. Take a look a that wiki

// setup date object for midday on May Day 2004 (ISO year 2004)
DateTime dtISO = new DateTime(2004, 5, 1, 12, 0, 0, 0);

// find out what the same instant is using the Islamic Chronology

DateTime dtIslamic = dtISO.withChronology(IslamicChronology.getInstance());

By: ana

ana — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:12:33 +0000

Hey Hi,
can you please help me by suggesting How to use Islamic Calendar /Lunar Calendar with JodoTime. Please tell me as soon as possible.
Thank You

By: Luc Bors

Luc Bors — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:48:48 +0000

Hi Robert,

according to the component documentation the inputDate only accepts java.util.Date.

If you need the value as a LocalDate instance, you could try to do the following:

Use the org.joda.time.LocalDate date untill you have to actually show the date in the adf component. In other words: bind the to a java.util.Date date, and in the getter you first get the org.joda.time.LocalDate date and convert it to a java.util.Date date, which is the date that you return.

When the date is changed, you can use a valueChangeListener which converts the java.util.Date date to the org.joda.time.LocalDate date.

I wish a had a different answer, but I don’t. Let me know the solution you pick.

Say hello to the rest of the team, and good luck with the next phase in the project !

By: Robert Willems

Robert Willems — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:51:11 +0000

Hi Luc,

how do you configure the af:inputDate to bind to a value that is a LocalDate instance?
It seems to want to set the model to an java.util.Date

Regards,
Robert (and the rest of the team )

By: Jasper Fontaine

Jasper Fontaine — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:24:35 +0000

For some additional fun, try doing this:

DateTimeFormatter formatter =
DateTimeFormat.forPattern(“yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S”).withLocale(DUTCH_LOCALE);
DateTime dt = formatter.parseDateTime(“1893-03-31 23:53:28.0″);
System.out.println(dt.toDate());