So there's an article on Oreillynet right now about Java's Date class and other related classes like Calendar and TimeZone. While Java seems to do more or less everything DateTime does, the API is absolutely abysmally bad. It's awkward, unidiomatic, and requires lots of structural code.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/06/05/java_calendar.html See, it could be worse ;) -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
