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===java.util.Date===
The class Date represents a specific instant in time, with millisecond precision. The Date class is intended to reflect coordinated universal time (UTC).  In all methods of class Date that accept or return year, month, date, hours, minutes, and seconds values, the following representations are used:

* A year y is represented by the integer y - 1900.
* A month is represented by an integer from 0 to 11; 0 is January, 1 is February, and so forth; thus 11 is December.
* A date (day of month) is represented by an integer from 1 to 31 in the usual manner.
* An hour is represented by an integer from 0 to 23. Thus, the hour from midnight to 1 a.m. is hour 0, and the hour from noon to 1 p.m. is hour 12.
* A minute is represented by an integer from 0 to 59 in the usual manner.
* A second is represented by an integer from 0 to 61; the values 60 and 61 occur only for leap seconds and even then only in Java implementations that actually track leap seconds correctly. Because of the manner in which leap seconds are currently introduced, it is extremely unlikely that two leap seconds will occur in the same minute, but this specification follows the date and time conventions for ISO C.