对于新代码(如果您的策略允许第三方代码)，最好的方法是使用Joda Time库。

日期和日历都有很多设计问题，它们都不是新代码的好解决方案。

对于新代码(如果您的策略允许第三方代码)，最好的方法是使用Joda Time库。

日期和日历都有很多设计问题，它们都不是新代码的好解决方案。

当我需要对日期进行一些特定的操作时，我使用日历，但当你需要格式化日期以适应你的需求时，我发现它很有帮助，最近我发现Locale有很多有用的操作和方法。我现在使用Locale !

Date and Calendar are really the same fundamental concept (both represent an instant in time and are wrappers around an underlying long value). One could argue that Calendar is actually even more broken than Date is, as it seems to offer concrete facts about things like day of the week and time of day, whereas if you change its timeZone property, the concrete turns into blancmange! Neither objects are really useful as a store of year-month-day or time-of-day for this reason. Use Calendar only as a calculator which, when given Date and TimeZone objects, will do calculations for you. Avoid its use for property typing in an application. Use SimpleDateFormat together with TimeZone and Date to generate display Strings. If you're feeling adventurous use Joda-Time, although it is unnecessarily complicated IMHO and is soon to be superceded by the JSR-310 date API in any event. I have answered before that it is not difficult to roll your own YearMonthDay class, which uses Calendar under the hood for date calculations. I was downvoted for the suggestion but I still believe it is a valid one because Joda-Time (and JSR-310) are really so over-complicated for most use-cases.

Java 8，新的Java。应该使用时间包。

对象是不可变的，时区和日光节约被考虑在内。

你可以从一个旧的java.util.Date对象中创建一个ZonedDateTime对象，就像这样:

    Date date = new Date();
    ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = date.toInstant().atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault());

Date最适合存储日期对象。它是持久化的，序列化的…

日历是操作日期的最佳工具。

注意:我们有时也更喜欢java.lang.Long而不是Date，因为Date是可变的，因此不是线程安全的。在Date对象上，使用setTime()和getTime()在两者之间切换。例如，应用程序中的一个常量Date(例如:0 1970/01/01，或应用程序的END_OF_TIME，您设置为2099/12/31;这些对于替换null值作为开始时间和结束时间非常有用，特别是当您在数据库中持久化它们时，因为SQL对null非常特殊)。