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Arty:

There are issues with how the class resolves time zone based on locale
v. the machine time, etc.  There's quite a bit over in BugParade on
Javasoft and probably a couple whitepapers on it.

A lot of this type of trouble led to the deprecation of the entire
Date class.

-Rich

Arty Tsaturov wrote:
> 
> Try this:
> 
>  Date myDate = new Date(0);
>  Calendar myCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
>  myCalendar.setTime(myDate);
> 
>  System.out.println(myCalendar.get(myCalendar.YEAR));
>  System.out.println(myCalendar.get(myCalendar.DAY_OF_YEAR));
>  System.out.println(myCalendar.get(myCalendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
>  System.out.println(myCalendar.get(myCalendar.MINUTE));
>  System.out.println(myCalendar.get(myCalendar.SECOND));
> 
> If you think you will get
> Year: 1970
> Day of the year: 1
> Hour of Day: 0
> Minute: 0
> Second: 0
> 
> YOU ARE WRONG!!!!!
> The result will be
> Year: 1969
> Day of the year: 365
> Hour 19
> Minute 0
> Second 0
> 
> Five hours offset...
> 
> Anybody has any clue???

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