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Re:The definitive guide to “modulo bias” and how to avoid it... by brazzy on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:34PM (#32858759)
The Jon Skeet article you're citing mentions only java.util.Date, and it is in fact absolutely fair to say that this class "fundamentally misunderstands what dates are at a conceptual level" in all of its functionality that goes beyond being a thin wrapper around a number of milliseconds.

But note that java.util.Date is from Java 1.0. The mistake was recognized and in Java 1.1 we got java.util.Calendar and friends, which is, as far as I know, does qualify as "functional and correct" but was ugly and annoying to use, as well as missing many useful features (like the concept of a timespan, or even just a date without a time-of-day).

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Re:The definitive guide to “modulo bias” and how to avoid it... by the_af on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:01PM (#32859011)
(I assure you I'm not picking on you or your answer!)

I seem to remember the article which I unfortunately cannot conjure up right now demolished java.util.Calendar as well (again, as in "wrong", not as in "difficult to use"). I'm pretty confident of this because I never used Java 1.x at work, and when I read the article it was relevant to my day job.

Alas, memory fails me.

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