java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar

The following are various small articles I have put together in response to questions I have answered concerning java.util.Dates, java.util.Calendars and java.text.DateFormat.

Is java.util.Date Deprecated?

Loosing Time on the Garden Path: Calculating the Difference Between Two Datetime Stamps. This article discusses the right way to calculate a difference in days between two millisecond values?

Are millisecond values guaranteed to be increasing?

Java dates, times and calendar from the comp.lang.java.programmer FAQ. Since Peter Van Der Linden's Java FAQ seems to have long since died and is only available in a few place (including the copy at on the BURK pages at Bristol University), with only a few minor updates, I have replicated the Date &Calendar stuff which I put together on that FAQ so long ago.