GregorianCalendar or Calender

[Frank Jacobsen]

Hallo !

Im have to use a date, i can use GregorianCalendar or Calender, what do Sun recomend that i use, or why use Calender or Why use GregorianCalender ???
As i see it i can do the same things with GregorianCalendar and with Calender ???

Frank Jacobsen

[Mag Hoehme]

Hi Frank,

the answer is:

 Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); 

This usually returns a GregorianCalendar, which represents our (Western) calendar. The calendar object is initialized with the system's time and date. java.util.Calendar is the abstract superclass for calendar objects such as GregorianCalendar. Other calendar's - for example, a Japanese one - may interpret the system's time in another way. However, the only implemented calendar type is the Gregorian one so far.

For more details check the JavaDoc for java.util.Calendar.

Hope this helps.
[ June 25, 2004: Message edited by: Mag Hoehme ]

[Jeroen Wenting]

Seeing as you can't instantiate Calendar (it's an abstract class) there is little to choose...

Effectively you use both together. An instance of GregorianCalendar and static methods and finals from Calendar.