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Handling dates in Java

7th July 2003

I could have really done with this a few months ago: Making Sense of Java’s Dates.

Posted 7th July 2003 at 10:41 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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