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Making Sense of Java's Dates (O'Reilly)

Philipp K. Janert, Ph.D. looks at date handling from Java on O'Reilly. "Over all of the issues concerning leap seconds, time zones, daylight savings time (DST), and lunar calendars, it is easy to forget that measuring time is a very simple concept: time progresses linearly."
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