I’m using Joda, and I’m making a class to store the timestamp for a transaction and persist to a DB. Should I be using an Instant or a DateTime?
I’m using Joda , and I’m making a class to store the timestamp for
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I’m using Joda, and I’m making a class to store the timestamp for a transaction and persist to a DB. Should I be using an Instant or a DateTime?
Use whichever one best fits your model.
Instantis a representation of a millisecond timestamp value,DateTimeis a calendar-based object. Each one can be easily converted into the other, so there’s no need to restrict your model according what the database needs.So you need to ask yourself – what data am I actually modelling? Is it a year/month/day/hour/minute/second/etc value, or is it just an arbitrary moment in time with no particular meaning?