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Comment by rco8786 | Hacker News Reader

Not 100% sure why this is here, considering its age, but it always struck me as strange that they never did anything with Dates. The stdlib offering for Dates in Java/JVM environments is atrocious.

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Not sure what you mean. java.util.Date is terrible, but the newer java.util.time.* classes are some of the best I've worked with when it comes to datetimes.

java.time is state of the art and has been in Java for 10 years.

Before that, Joda-Time was the de facto standard, with `java.time` being a port to the standard library by the same author.

This makes it sound like joda and java.time are the same. They have major differences and java.time fixes a lot of the problems with joda time.

They are in part by the same author. And so is the threeten library that extend the java8 time lib with some useful-but-edgecasey additions.

I use both (Joda in a legacy code base) and the similarity is clear (as the other user pointed out, both designed by the same author).

java.util.Date is kind of bad, but java.time.* is pretty good.

It helps that Stephen Colebourne, creator of Joda-Time, revisited his own work and designed the new official API.

Now I just need to get my coworkers to use Duration instead of:

    long THREE_MINUTES_IN_MILLIS = 3 * 60000;

At least it has the unit in the name, could be worse.

Joda time already did that.

(And then it was included in Java 8 in java.time.*)

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