title: How to get the earliest date of a List in Java?
body: <p>I have an ArrayList which stores 0...4 Dates.</p>
  
  <p>The amount of Dates in the list depends on a Business logic.</p>
  
  <p>How can I get the earliest date of this list? Of course I can build iterative loops to finally retrieve the earliest date. But is there a 'cleaner'/ quicker way of doing this, especially when considering that this list can grow on a later perspective?</p>