RE: Duration Calculation

From: Jon Paris

Besides - doesn't it strike you as thoroughly silly that one should
even have to contemplate "playing" with milliseconds to get a count
of a number of days! It is insane that such steps should be required
in a so-called "modern" language.

But that's always been the issue with Java, hasn't it? It's simply not a
business programming language. Any language that doesn't have a primitive
type for decimal arithmetic simply isn't a real business language.

Then again, prior to date data types in RPG, I wouldn't call RPG's date
processing particularly powerful. I think it's a bit crazy that every
business system written in the 80s and 90s had its own date handling
routines, and that you new that SOMEWHERE in the bowels was an array
containing the following:

31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31

As well as a routine that divided the year by 4 and returned the remainder.
But obviously still light years better than dealing with milliseconds.

Joe