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On 10/1/2013 10:29 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> It's hard for me to
> believe, that there wasn't any common need for representing intervals
> of time in a mixture of units, and not just seconds.


I think the new JOGL stuff has an interval (they call it a Duration). 
But I don't think you're missing anything.  The Calendar class is pretty 
widely derided as missing a lot of important features, afaik.