What s the right way to create a date in Java

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I get confused by the Java API for the Date class  Everything seems to be deprecated and links to the Calendar class  So I started using the Calendar objects to do what I would have liked to do with a Date  but intuitively it kind of bothers me to use a Calendar object when all I really want to do is create and compare two dates   Is there a simple way to do that  For now I do  Calendar cal   Calendar getInstance    cal setTimeInMillis 0   cal set year  month  day  hour  minute  second   Date date   cal getTime       get back a Date object

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You can use SimpleDateFormat  SimpleDateFormat sdf   new SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy    Date d   sdf parse  21 12 2012      But I don t know whether it should be considered more right than to use Calendar

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The excellent joda-time library is almost always a better choice than Java s Date or Calendar classes   Here s a few examples   DateTime aDate   new DateTime year  month  day  hour  minute  second   DateTime anotherDate   new DateTime anotherYear  anotherMonth  anotherDay        if  aDate isAfter anotherDate         DateTime yearFromADate   aDate plusYears 1

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You can try joda-time

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