Name: sg39081 Date: 06/03/99


Calendar has public methods:

  Date getTime();
  setTime (Date);

getTime () always returns a new Date made from an internal
millisecond value, and setTime always gets the milliseconds
out of the Date. Date is pretty much a useless class. There
should be public methods:

  long getTimeInMillis ();
  setTimeInMillis (long);

which avoid the needless/useless Date object. The salt in the
wound on the matter is that there are in fact *protected*
getTimeInMillis() and setTimeInMillis() methods, which seem
to be just fine. They ought to be made public.

Dan Bornstein
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(Review ID: 83912)
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Name: tb29552 Date: 10/23/99


I need to do Calendar calculations and then send the time from
the epoch in Milliseconds over the network. I can set a
Calendars time with milliseconds by creating a date and setting
the calendar to that date but after doing the calculations I
can't get the milliseconds back out, because the getTimeInMillis()
is protected.
(Review ID: 96942)
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