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

[Jeremy Dowdall <jeremyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

additionally, from jem.marsh on the Sun Developer Network:

> Calendars are used to manipulate Dates. DateFormats are used to format
> Dates. Date is used to represent dates. When Sun moved the
> manipulation methods to Calendar & DateFormat, it did not intend to
> stop people using Date.


Tom Schindl wrote:
> Christopher J Gross schrieb:
> > 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?
>
> Because from most frameworks you use e.g. JDBC you get back a Date
> object which you need to wrap if into Calender object.
>
> Tom
>
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