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Or possibly better:

private Date date;

public Date getDate() { return new Date(date.getTime()); }



Your code solves the external side effects problem but using the primitive also allows the time to be finalized eg:

private final long creationTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

so it still has advantages over making the field a Date object.




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