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Yeah, it effectively became a typed wrapper of a long epoch millis value. Generally treated as immutable by convention in my experience, although of course it technically wasn't as the setters were never removed.

It was hopelessly wrong initially, and got even worse when they added the horrible sql Date/Timestamp/etc classes.

With java.time though, it is the gold standard as far as I've seen.

Java's time and duration representations, heavily based on Joda, should be the standard that every language works towards.

It's just about perfect in every way. It makes it easy to do the right thing and it's very pleasant to read.

https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/1.1/api/java.util.Date.html

Curses, I was close. Also: yikes to the design.