When are we going to see a Kotlin MPP date library I had hea

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When are we going to see a Kotlin MPP date library I had heard that this was on JetBrains radar but haven t heard anything about this

ian.shaun.thomas · Answer

have you looked at klock <https github com korlibs klock>

ian.shaun.thomas · Answer

I think the biggest issue right now is a lack of a standard locale implementation that these common dependencies can be built on

serebit · Answer

Last I asked about it here it s planned but hasn t been started yet Going to be called kotlinx time

josephivie · Answer

ian.shaun.thomas · Answer

yep that s a great stop gap but we need something jetbrains takes ownership of as a core feature of MPP imo anyway

josephivie · Answer

I agree and hopefully JetBrains will eventually just take an existing OSP and make it part of the library I hope this library will contribute to whatever ends up being standard

josephivie · Answer

Is there a way to basically submit a proposal for the design of a future component like this I assume I d go through KEEP

ian.shaun.thomas · Answer

Yeah keep would be the best way to propose an implementation Glancing at your lib I would like to suggest a data class based implementation such that locales can be loaded like the jvm does typically and the locales provide information for other classes to determine how to apply formatting rather than requiring the locale itself to implement it

ian.shaun.thomas · Answer

I feel an approach like this would be less opinionated on end use cases I ve also been toying with the idea to make this approach and use a Gradle script to generate the locales data based on the jvms locale data which is already quite expansive but the licensing is an obvious concern there

spierce7 · Answer

Yes I m aware of klock however Dates and Time is something that s very difficult to get right It s not something I d trust to just anyone As such my team is avoiding it I m waiting to see what JetBrains does with this

ian.shaun.thomas · Answer

definitely

nestserau · Answer

I personally don t need such library `Int64` is already cross platform enough

addamsson · Answer

I agree with < nestserau>

addamsson · Answer

every time I opt not to store a simple unix timestamp in my database I end up with a mess

addamsson · Answer

smile

Robert · Answer

Def need such library These two libs could be great input What does it need to get such things going with Jetbrains Are they involving the community in the development process As I am sure there s some devs who d like to cooperate