Re: how to handle dates alone
Re: how to handle dates alone
- Subject: Re: how to handle dates alone
- From: David LeBer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:06:18 -0500
On 2011-01-28, at 2:00 PM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> You say 'these are Java'. yes, but how it relates to the backend. I have invoice dates in my database. it is just a date. no time.
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> how can I set up Entity Modeler to not use a Timestamp. I tried the Joda Time stuff but it seems that there were problems so it was pulled.
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> So I need to rephrase. How can I have a date column in my database and have an object in Webobjects that is date only and not care about times and timezones?
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> Am I clearer?
See Chuck's reply. My comment was more of a sarcastic allusion to the fact that working with Java dates is *always* a pain, regardless of how your backend is persisting them.
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> Ted
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> --- On Fri, 1/28/11, David LeBer <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> From: David LeBer <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: how to handle dates alone
>> To: "Theodore Petrosky" <email@hidden>
>> Cc: email@hidden
>> Date: Friday, January 28, 2011, 1:52 PM
>>
>> On 2011-01-28, at 1:49 PM, 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.
>>>
>>> I just got bitten with a timezone problem when
>> shifting my app to a different box.
>>
>>
>>> There must be a prescribed and easier way.
>>
>> Really? These ARE java dates we are talking about here.
;david
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