> Seems that Stephen has taken another approach to this (see the posts > in this thread). Maybe someone takes a look to see if the two versions > in rupert can be explited and deprecated in favor of CalendarUtils > or joda. Parts of these classes could be deprecated to Joda, but Joda is much bigger.
> Please be warned, that Date is a fragile/controversial issue, since > 1. The java SimpleDateFormatter is not thread safe > 2. Dates have many locale specific representation. Indeed, Sun's dates are pretty rubbish. Joda has a 0.8 release, which has thread safe formatting including time zone handling and locale handling. It still needs more work though. Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>