As a java developer, I have a special place in my heart for the Java Date object and it's related utility classes. In a series of posts I am going to exhort the benefits of using the Joda Time library and abandoning the Java date and time objects. From their site, the Joda Project is "...a Java open-source project that seeks to improve core Java functionality." While they have a couple of other projects, the most active appears to be the Joda-Time project where the current version 1.6.1 was … [Read more...] about Java Date API’s vs. Joda Time – What month is it?