Java Dates

wsg honestly i don't write stuff and i suck at it this prob gonna look like a 12yo work but yeah. honestly i'm not too happy with this feel like it can get alot better but ya gotta start someplace and i'd rather figure out how you guys actually prefer to do stuff before adding alot more content.

im absolutely ready to get crushed by a code review lol

hope you guys like it tho

@rastin-sh Its a start. I will read it more closely ronight. My immediate feedback is that I don't want to even tell people about java.util.Date until it becomes needed for something (like JDBC.)

We are actually about ready to cover this as a topic though.

@rastin-sh I left some comments but stopped relatively early since they all have a theme.

Something I should make clear in the contribution docs + maybe other places is that what I really want to maintain is a "topological sort" of topics. I.E. I don't ever want to introduce or talk about something that someone reading in order wouldn't have enough info to grasp.

All the talk about "poor design," the history of Java, thread safety, ISO times, etc. is lacking the necessary background info in the book as written so far.

Its also not in the format as the rest of the book. So far we've introduced larger things like this in sections with relatively bite-sized pages. This is a chunker.

But I will be writing about time types soon and I will use this as a reference - I'll be able to give better feedback at that point.

@bowbahdoe sure I get it. also one thing.

Its also not in the format as the rest of the book. So far we've introduced larger things like this in sections with relatively bite-sized pages. This is a chunker.

I honestly don't think you could necessarily make this smaller without changing the format but as I mentioned above I'm not really good with writing so I could see your perspective as this is quite a mess of a "article". I guess in the future you could possibly reference the other parts such as DateTimeFormatter, Locale, and others which aren't necessarily closely tied with Dates as a whole. Not sure what to do with this pole at this moment, would u like me to close it?

Leave the PR open for now. It's useful for me as a reminder and I will try to restructure the info I can

@rastin-sh thank you for your patience btw. Circling around this topic like a bird right now.

@rastin-sh thank you for your patience btw. Circling around this topic like a bird right now.

well ive been expecting something back. also never knew you could be a bird. cool.

btw this is one of my many alts i was too lazy to get back on that other account.

hi mate, i did respond to your message as soon as i read it. now after a month or so i think i come back to find out my account is now disabled. now i could rant about it all day but id rather just follow up on this whole thing from this account if you dont mind cause i honestly am interested in knowing more about dates in java

@k1nxx I pushed a section on times. I'll close this for now, but I think I got all the info I wanted from your changes. I'll look back here if/when i come around to a "Time 2" section