Article:		Making Sense of Java's Dates
Subject:		Java date handling sucks
Date:		2003-06-05 21:01:24
From:		anonymous2
I thought it was just me when I first came across the way java handled dates. It seemed a complete mess to me. I am glad that I am not alone. It seems there used to be some kind of conspiracy of silence on this poorly designed set of classes.

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• Java date handling sucks
  2003-06-05 21:07:08  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  jus to add something like ms sql's datediff function would have been a great convenience method.
• Java date handling sucks
  2003-06-18 21:10:22  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  try Joda. It is a versatile and user friendly date library.
  
  http://joda.sourceforge.net/dates.html