The current Java.net poll question is, " How critical is it for JSR-310 (new Date and Time API) to be implemented in Java 8? " At the time of my writing of this post, nearly 150 respondents have ...

Because Java (and Groovy) base their date/time APIs (Date, Date, and Calendar) off of the same epoch starting time as Unix, it is easier to deal with dates and times when writing Groovy scripts in ...