And those methods are reproduced in Calendar. Reading "Java in a Nutshell," 2d addition 2 years ago, Flannigan pointed out that the Date class was poorly conceived and worse implemented.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: James Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: java.util.Calendar - Why? Mark Galbreath wrote: >Come on, guys! Why the issue - every constructor except the default is >deprecated; every method except toString() is deprecated. The JavaDoc >tells you to use Calendar instead. Are you that obtuse? > setTime() and getTime() are also not deprecated. It appears that all this should be used for is for these two methods, other than that Date is deprecated. -- "We do not lose our identity in our relations with others; in part, at least, we achieve our identity by those relations." Tony Blair, 1993
