Inconsistent time fields

[kfoxb]

I've noticed that there are some fields on some of the types, in particular the Comment struct, that are strings instead of a jira.Time. Is there a reason for this? It would be a breaking change, but would you be open to a pull request to change these fields to be jira.Time instead?

[bored-engineer]

Another option (avoiding a breaking change) would be to at least implement helper methods similar to ChangelogHistory.CreatedTime.

[andygrunwald]

@kfoxb The reason might be that jira.Time was introduced later and not fully adjusted to all types.
Indeed, this would be a breaking change. And maybe it is time for a breaking change + v2. We have more and more such changes.

Would you be open to prepare such a PR to make it consistent across the library?

[perolo]

I have a more general question regarding how to use/access/cast of the Time data?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61897115/fail-to-access-cast-time-time

[perolo]

I was so sure that I tested and failed with:
resDate=time.Time(issue.Fields.Resolutiondate)
But that solves my problem
....

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[andygrunwald]

Hey,

I am very sorry that this issue has been open for a long time with no final solution. We work on this project in our spare time, and sometimes, other priorities take over. This is the typical open source dilemma.

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