Re: [threeten-develop] JSR-310 face to face meeting with Oracle

[Stephen C. <sco...@jo...>]

On 3 February 2012 12:09, Brian Harris <bri...@gm...> wrote:
> OffsetDate is the only class I have a problem with, not OffsetDateTime
> or OffsetTime. Is there a use case for OffsetDate besides this XML
> schema compatibility?

Well OffsetDate clearly has a meaning. Its a reference to a whole day
occurring at an offset from UTC. And it has the opposite use case to
that described for OffsetTime, that is storing a LocalTime and an
optional OffsetDate that combine to form an ODT.

To remove would make the pattern of classes incomplete for a
combination that is logically valid. In my view, that makes it harder
for users to understand the pattern, whether or not it is widely used.

Stephen