Java Date vs Calendar

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Date is a simpler class and is mainly there for backward compatibility reasons. If you need to set particular dates or do date arithmetic, use a Calendar. Calendars also handle localization. The previous date manipulation functions of Date have since been deprecated.

Personally I tend to use either time in milliseconds as a long (or Long, as appropriate) or Calendar when there is a choice.

Both Date and Calendar are mutable, which tends to present issues when using either in an API.

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