Java equivalent of .NET DateTime.MinValue, DateTime.Today

Question

Is there a Java equivalent of DateTime.MinValue and DateTime.Today in the Java Date class? Or a way of achieving something similar?

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Answer 1

The de-facto Java datetime API is joda-time.

With it, you can get the current date/time by just constructing new DateTime().

Similarly, Without it, you can use Calendar.getInstance() or new Date() to obtain the current date/time.

MinValue can be Calendar.getInstance(0) / new Date(0). This would use the default chronology - i.e. since January 1st, 1970. Since MinValue returns Januar 1st, year 1, you can do that be simply specifying this date, using the appropriate constructor of DateTime.