3.2 Class Date public  class  java.util.
Date extends  java.lang.
The class Date provides anabstraction of dates and times. Those six components, as well as the day of the week, may be extracted from a date. Dates may also be compared and converted to a readable string form. A date is represented to a precision of one millisecond. The leap second is always added as the last second of the day, and always on December 31 or June 30.