Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

joda-time

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English

Syllables: jo-da--time
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A widely used date and time processing library.

Example Sentences

"Several alternative Date replacement packages emerged, including the simple and sensible Date4J and the more comprehensive Joda-Time package."
"Joda time is a complete alternative to the JDK date and time classes and seeks to replace them."
"Joda-Time is a powerful open source library well known and used in the market that works with time, dates, and chronology:"
"Later the decision was made to integrate Joda-Time or something similar to it into Java's core libraries"
"The design of these classes was inspired by the Joda-Time library, which is a popular open-source date and time library for Java."
"For instance, when integrating a date-time library like Joda-Time, one might wrap the mutable Java objects in immutable records, thereby providing a clear boundary between side-effecting Java calls and pure Clojure functions."

Etymology

Derives from a four letter name, beginning with the letter j whose domain name, joda.org, was available at the time. The choice of the name was arbitarily made by its creator, Stephen Colebourne, around 2002. It is not an acronym.

Questions

What does joda-time mean?: A widely used date and time processing library.
Where does joda-time come from?: Derives from a four letter name, beginning with the letter j whose domain name, joda.org, was available at the time. The choice of the name was arbitarily made by its creator, Stephen Colebourne, around 2002. It is not an acronym.

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