This package implements Date/Time manipulations, arithmetics and formatting in an easy to use manner for Java and Waba (Java for small devices like PDAs). This package was created for various reasons, the most important ones: The datergf package for Java and Waba follows the ideas of "datergf.cmd", a little date manipulation/arithmetic function package written for the scripting language Rexx, which is available in the form of commercial and (opensourced) free interpreters for practically every operating system in the world. Its syntax is simple, hence easy to learn and nicely maintainable.

[In the meantime a fully Object oriented version (with Smalltalk's object model, enhanced with multiple inheritance) has been created by IBM: Object Rexx. It's free for Linux and OS/2, available for AIX and Windows 97/NT/2000/ME, allowing easy access to OLE/ActiveX-automation as well as to the WSH ('Windows Scripting Host').]

Acknowledgements:

Rony G. Flatscher, Vienna (Austria/Europe), 2001-04-07

{This package was developed while working temporarily (from April 2000 through April 2001) at the University of Essen (Germany), starting out from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (a.k.a. "WU" - Wirtschafts-Universität Wien)). This was taken as an opportunity to learn about Java and Waba.