Are there any cons to using Joda-Time?

Question

I want to convince the architecture manager to include the Joda-Time jar in our product.

Do you know any disadvantages in using it?

I think Joda-Time needs t

Answer 1

Parleys hosts a presentation by Stephen Colebourne about JSR-310, Mr. Colebourne the author of Joda-Time and JSR-310. He starts out by explaining the weaknesses of the standard date/time support in Java and why you'd want to use an alternative. It may be helpful to show this presentation to your architecture manager. I can't seem to deep-link

The reason Joda-Time updates its timezone file fairly often is because timezone data changes all the time, often on short notice (today on slashdot: leap second added on 2008-12-31) and not always scientifically motivated (e.g. I recall some pacific island state changed its time zone to be the first country to enter the year 2000).