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Asked: 2026-05-10T14:37:58+00:00

Every time I need to work with date and/or timstamps in Java I always

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Every time I need to work with date and/or timstamps in Java I always feel like I’m doing something wrong and spend endless hours trying to find a better way of working with the APIs without having to code my own Date and Time utility classes. Here’s a couple of annoying things I just ran into:

  • 0-based months. I realize that best practice is to use Calendar.SEPTEMBER instead of 8, but it’s annoying that 8 represents September and not August.

  • Getting a date without a timestamp. I always need the utility that Zeros out the timestamp portion of the date.

  • I know there’s other issues I’ve had in the past, but can’t recall. Feel free to add more in your responses.

So, my question is … What third party APIs do you use to simplify Java’s usage of Date and Time manipulation, if any? Any thoughts on using Joda? Anyone looked closer at JSR-310 Date and Time API?

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  1. This post has a good discussion on comparing the Java Date/Time API vs JODA.

    I personally just use Gregorian Calendar and SimpleDateFormat any time I need to manipulate dates/times in Java. I’ve never really had any problems in using the Java API and find it quite easy to use, so have not really looked into any alternatives.

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