Why were most java.util.Date methods deprecated?

Question

When you look at the javadoc of the java.util.Date class, most of the methods are deprecated. Why was this done?

Answer 1

• Date is mutable
• Date doesn't have support for time zones

The latter led to it being replaced by Calendar. And the former, combined with the ease-of-use, lead to both being replaced by Joda-Time / JSR-310 (java.time.* package)