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class DateUtils {
    /**
     * <p>Round this date, leaving the field specified as the most
     * significant field.</p>
     *
     * <p>For example, if you had the datetime of 28 Mar 2002
     * 13:45:01.231, if this was passed with HOUR, it would return
     * 28 Mar 2002 14:00:00.000. If this was passed with MONTH, it
     * would return 1 April 2002 0:00:00.000.</p>
     * 
     * <p>For a date in a timezone that handles the change to daylight
     * saving time, rounding to Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY will behave as follows.
     * Suppose daylight saving time begins at 02:00 on March 30. Rounding a 
     * date that crosses this time would produce the following values:
     * <ul>
     * <li>March 30, 2003 01:10 rounds to March 30, 2003 01:00</li>
     * <li>March 30, 2003 01:40 rounds to March 30, 2003 03:00</li>
     * <li>March 30, 2003 02:10 rounds to March 30, 2003 03:00</li>
     * <li>March 30, 2003 02:40 rounds to March 30, 2003 04:00</li>
     * </ul>
     * </p>
     * 
     * @param date  the date to work with, either Date or Calendar
     * @param field  the field from <code>Calendar</code>
     *  or <code>SEMI_MONTH</code>
     * @return the rounded date
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the date is <code>null</code>
     * @throws ClassCastException if the object type is not a <code>Date</code>
     *  or <code>Calendar</code>
     * @throws ArithmeticException if the year is over 280 million
     */
    public static Date round(Object date, int field) {
        if (date == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The date must not be null");
        }
        if (date instanceof Date) {
            return round((Date) date, field);
        } else if (date instanceof Calendar) {
            return round((Calendar) date, field).getTime();
        } else {
            throw new ClassCastException("Could not round " + date);
        }
    }

}