Hey Bart, In order to create our date object, we have to first tell our program that we want to make is in fact a date object. If we were just to write 1421849732000L then our program would most likely interpret that as a string. However we want that to be converted to a date. That's why we use the Date(1421849732000L), to signify to our program that we want a date object with the time of 1421849732000L. and we use the keyword new because, well, we want to create a new date. the creation of new objects always require the new keyword. when creating a object from a class, remember how we use the new keyword there also? I hope that sort of made sense. Just remember that we always need to use Date() to make a date and input the time of your choice in the parantheses. If you leave it empty, it will make a date object of the current time. and use the new keyword to make a date object Happy coding and all the best, Kevin Answer from Kevin Faust on teamtreehouse.com