Adding/subtracting 1900 is not a big problem. Instead of setDay() use (also deprecated) setDate()
Also, take a look at DateTimeFormat http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsFormatting.html#datetimeformat If you are concerned about using deprecated methods, you can always convert a string to a Date or to an int using various DateTimeFormat.parse(...) methods. On Jan 4, 7:41 am, Tom Rada <tom.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > let me apologize in advance for my trivial post, but I really don't > know any better place to ask the question: > > I want to have a widget consisting of three list boxes allowing people > enter their date of birth. > However, it seems GWT lacks any support for working with date/time on > client side. > > There is the old java Date class that has all methods deprecated - and > that's the only positive thing I can say about it, because getYear > returns some stupid number to that you have to add 1900 to get actual > year, getDay returns value representing "day in week" value, etc. > > So, it isn't that hard to fill the combos with values, but such simple > task like setting the actual day as selected in respective list box is > impossible for me. > > How would you solve my issue? - I don't want to use any date picker > (like the one provided by GWT) > > With Regards, > Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
