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

[Christopher J Gross <chris.gross@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Straight from the source!  Do you
have a link for that quote?  

-Chris

Jeremy Dowdall <jeremyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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