What is the accepted way to replace java.util.Date(year,month,day)

Question

I\'m trying to do something really simple, but starting to realize that dates in Java are a bit of minefield. All I want is to get passed groups of three ints ( a year, a m

Answer 1

LG's answer is valid but in general you should use Calendar for all your date operations and leave Date out of it unless your API requires it explicitly. In that case you can just convert it when passing it to the API.