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Re: how to handle dates alone
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Re: how to handle dates alone


  • Subject: Re: how to handle dates alone
  • From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:56:28 -0800

Dates don't actually exist.  Only instantaneous points in time exist (well, give or take certain theories from  theoretical physics).  What we talk about as dates are highly subjective spans of time.  Standard Java does not support such subjective concepts.  You could "normalize" all dates to noon in GMT so that the times are equal (assuming you never go more than 11 time zones away).  The only other solution that I am familiar with is Joda Time.

Chuck


On Jan 28, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:

> so I was out the other night with the really h (sorry wrong forum)
>
> How are people handling dates with no timezone (and no time, just the date alone)? I really want to use the date column type and not care about the time nor zone but I haven't figured out a way.
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> I just got bitten with a timezone problem when shifting my app to a different box. There must be a prescribed and easier way.
>
> Ted
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