Defensive copy of Calendar

Question

Been trying to find the best way to implement a method that makes a defensive copy of a Calendar object.

eg:

public void setDate(Calendar date) {
            


        

Answer 1

Simplest way would be:

copy = Calendar.getInstance(original.getTimeZone());
copy.setTime(original.getTime());

But I strongly suggest that (whenever possible) you use JodaTime to express times and dates in Java. It has immutable classes as well as mutable.