Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Converting a Date Object to a GregorianCalendar Object Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:35:57 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5662 On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:54:32 -0700 (PDT), KevinSimonson wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >I can go from a GregorianCalendar object to a Date object with the >method getTime(). Is there any way to go from a Date object to a >GregorianCalendar object? I haven't been able to find a way to do >it. If there isn't any way to do it, why isn't there any way to do >it? see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/calendar.html for various recipes. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com One of the great annoyances in programming derives from the irregularity of English spelling especially when you have international teams. I want to find a method or variable, but I don't know precisely how its is spelled or worded. English is only approximately phonetic. Letters are randomly doubled. The dictionary often lists variant spellings. British, Canadian and American spellings differ.I would like to see an experiment where variable names were spelled in a simplified English, where there were no double letters.I also think you could add a number of rules about composing variable names so that a variable name for something would be highly predictable. You would also need automated enforcement of the rules as well as possible.