I'm not sure its really "from the source", or just someone who has a
profile on SDN, but I saved the quote as it made sense and has helped me
keep perspective when working with java Date related issues.
googling "jem.marsh developer" will bring up the profile and from there
the thread:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=629464&messageID=3894805#3894805
(the last post for the impatient :) )
Christopher J Gross wrote:
Straight from the source! Do you have a link for that quote?
-Chris
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Re: [nebula-dev] Date submissions - Eric and Jeremy
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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