Below, I believe, is a quite standard JSpinner creation
with a date model. However, spinner's arrow buttons are
irresponsive and the display of the date doesn't spin.
What could be the cause and the soultion for the problem?

If you manually select the minute field with the caret,
spinner's suddenly got activated. But I (and user) can't
depend on the quirk.

Environment: JDK 1.6 build 44, Fedora Core 3, GNOME 2.8
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import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;

public class DateSpinnerWoe{
JSpinner dateSpinner;
SpinnerDateModel dateModel;
Date s, e, v;
int step, hour, minute;

public DateSpinnerWoe(){
hour = 6;
minute = 45;
step = Calendar.MINUTE;

s = createDsParameter(hour, minute);
e = createDsParameter(hour + 24, minute);
v = createDsParameter(hour, minute + 5);

dateModel = new SpinnerDateModel(v, s, e, step);
dateSpinner = new JSpinner(dateModel);
dateSpinner.setEditor
(new JSpinner.DateEditor(dateSpinner, "yyyy MM dd HH:mm"));

dateSpinner.addChangeListener(new ChangeListener(){
public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent e){
JSpinner spi = (JSpinner)e.getSource();
try{
spi.commitEdit();
}
catch (Exception ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println(spi.getValue());
}
});
}

private Date createDsParameter(int hr, int min){
GregorianCalendar gc = new GregorianCalendar();
gc.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, hr);
gc.set(Calendar.MINUTE, min);
gc.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
return gc.getTime();
}

public static void main(String[] args){
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
Container con = frame.getContentPane();
DateSpinnerWoe ds = new DateSpinnerWoe();
frame.add(ds.dateSpinner);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
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