Java has a rather sordid history with dates. In the beginning, Date was suppose to be the way to manage dates, which sounded rather logical. You could construct a Date from various component values (month, day, year and time), and internally it was measured as the number of milliseconds from epoch.
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Looking back at 2014, the decline in television viewership is undeniable, and while broadcast TV didn’t implode it’s pretty clear that viewership is moving to on-demand video streaming. For that matter, just look at the top rated broadcast program, for the second consecutive year it was football and if NFL Sunday Ticket has it’s way this might be the last year this happens.
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Recently, it was necessary to scan a large number of documents dating back almost ten years. When the files were complete, Spotlight dutifully re-indexed everything and suddenly it was impossible to find anything. These were primarily monthly statements, with virtually all of them having current statements that were suddenly superseded in my search results by documents from many years ago.
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