Several years ago I answered a question on StackOverflow "what's wrong with the date and time api in Java" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1969442/whats-wro

Several years ago I answered a question on StackOverflow "what's wrong with the date and time api in Java" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1969442/whats-wrong-with-java-date-time-api/1969651#1969651 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1969442/whats-wrong-with-... Considering how long ago it was answered, it took a /long/ time for the Java 8 replacement to come on board and give some sanity back to Java date computations.