Re: [nebula-dev] Date submissions - Eric and Jeremy

[Christopher J Gross <chris.gross@xxxxxxxxxx>]

True.  But is there a benefit to
using Date over Calendar?  As far as I can tell Date is just a wrapper
for a long now, right?   Why not use Calendar instead?

Tom Schindl <listom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Christopher J Gross schrieb:
[...]
>> > Both use on the deprecated Date class.  Calendar is
the replacement.
>> >  Would like to see the primary getters/setters use Calendar
and perhaps
>> > extra methods for Date.  Should also avoid GregorianCalendar
as that
>> > doesn't exist on CLDC.
>> I am not really convinced that Calendar must be used in priority
in
>> getters/setters. Even if many methods are deprecated, Date class
is
>> always widely used in applications when there is no computations
to do.
>> I think that none of Date and Calendar are fully satisfying, and
both
>> are complementary : Date for display and format, Calendar for
> computations.
>> There is no problem to have setters for both types. But it is
not so
>> simple for getters.
> Sure many application use Date, but it seems strange to make the primary
> getters/setters use a deprecated class.  Why not just have
> getSelection/setSelection use Calendar and another pair,
> getDate/setDate, use Date?
> 

Well the Date-class itself is not deprecated only most of its methods.
Date is used as a datastorage.

Tom
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