Article:		Making Sense of Java's Dates
Subject:		The Horror!
Date:		2003-06-08 21:12:40
From:		anonymous2
Response to: The Horror!
I think most of the Calendar code is a C port that was donated by IBM. That's the only excuse I can think of for the API being so awkward and definitely not idiomatic Java. Can anyone confirm or deny?

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• The Horror!
  2003-06-08 22:33:10  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  The code in the current Java Calendar classes was originally developed by Taligent and donated to Java when Taligent was aquired by IBM. Taligent had originally been a C++ company. The first of the references: "International Calendars in Java at IBM" gives more details. Ph.