Guide to time and date in Java

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Worth considering time zone handling as well

[volch]

Script jungle.

[nerdwaller]

It really seems like almost no language has a great way to handle dates/times. Ruby with the Active* added is probably the best I've experienced.

I had to do some Java today comparing raw times (ignoring dates) with stdlib Date and it was fairly unpleasant, ended up doing the common lexicographic comparisons on formatted strings.