Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
Andrea Francia wrote:
W.B. Garvelink wrote:
I wasn't involved in the design decision, but I would say a long is by
far the simplest, smallest in memory and most flexible way of
returning a time stamp.
I doubt it is more flexible.
Date myDate = new Date( getlastModified() );
Is not more flexible of
public interface FtpFile {
java.util.Date getLastModified();
}
long dateInMillis = file.getLastModified().getTime();
But with java.util.Date we can print formatted date with
System.out.printf("%tF", file.getLastModified());
And there are many library that uses java.util.Date() and the date
returned by databases are java.sql.Date (which extends java.util.Date).
Then why don't use a array of chars for representing strings?
java.util.Date is not a perfect date API, but there is not other best
choiches in the standard library.
Probably the Java 7 will provide a better date API.
pretty flexible. And simple.
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Andrea Francia
http://andreafrancia.blogspot.com/2008/07/colinux-linux-dentro-windows.html
