Date vs Time

[mikerada6]

I am trying to write a scheduling program for my work. The way I was thinking of doing this was creating a class for each employee, availability, and shift and. Each employee would have an object of availability for each day of the week. The availability would store just a time of when they could work. i.e. 10:00 Am - 8:30 PM. Then every week i would create all the different shifts i want to have i.e. 10/25/2010 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM. I am having trouble finding a good way to compare the employees availability to the shift since the shift contains a date where the availability does not. any ideas on a good was to do this? Thanks in advance.

[venerik]

In your problem statement you say an employee has an availability for each day of the week. Maybe you could ask the employee about his availability given a certain date.

For example (in pseudo code)

public class Employee {
    Availability[7] availability;

    Availability getAvailability(Date inDate){
        int dow = determineDayOfWeek(inDate);
        return avalailability[dow];
    }
}

This way the scheduler can check whether the employee is available during a shift or not.

Cheers,
Erik