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last posted Feb. 27, 2016, 12:54 p.m.

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The Datetime Library strikes back

I wonder whether a language will ever exist that has good, in-built support for datetime objects.

So here's the latest gem I discovered in util.Date:

So basically getYear() returns 116 for this year (2016). I don't know who would use it today, or why it was ever built like that, or what sort of backwards compatibility demon forces us to keep it there.

D:

Apparently people these days use things like Joda.