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  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