Java: What/where are the maximum and minimum values of a GregorianCalendar?

Question

What are the maximum and minimum values of a GregorianCalendar?

Are they in a constant like Integer.MAX_VALUE, or maybe GregorianCalendar.get(BLAH)?

In a nutshell, how can I create a GregorianCalendar instance with min/max value?

Answer 1

This should work:

GregorianCalendar maxgc = new GregorianCalendar();
maxgc.setTime(new Date(Long.MAX_VALUE));

GregorianCalendar mingc = new GregorianCalendar();
mingc.setTime(new Date(Long.MIN_VALUE));