Why does a new SimpleDateFormat object contain calendar with the wrong year?

Question

I came upon a strange behavior that has left me curious and without a satisfactory explanation as yet.

For simplicity, I\'ve reduced the symptoms I\'ve noticed to th

Answer 1

You are investigating internal behaviour. If this goes outside the published API then you are seeing undefined stuff, and you should not care about it.

Other than that, I belive that the year 1929 is used for considering when to interpret a two digit year as being in the 19xx instead of the 20xx.