[OSM-dev] Osmosis enableDateParsing

[Brett Henderson]

Jochen Topf wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:06:59PM +1100, Brett Henderson wrote:
>   
>> However it should be very fast now.  I recently implemented a change to 
>> keep the date as a string internally (I thought I sent you an email 
>> about this, could be wrong).  If it is written to xml again the previous 
>> date string is used unchanged.  If it is written to something like a 
>> database then the string will be parsed when it is required.  Even if 
>> parsing does occur, the custom code used internally is orders of 
>> magnitude faster than standard java xml date parsing classes.  It is the 
>> same code I submitted for JOSM though so has been around for some time now.
>>     
>
> So can we get rid of the option?
>   
It is still useful if the input file doesn't include timestamps.  I 
remember somebody using that recently.  I'll add a comment to the wiki 
to let people know it isn't useful for speed any more.