CHAPTER 12
Dates and Times
In this chapter, you will learn
- What the new Date-Time API is
- About the design principles behind the Date-Time API
- About the evolution of timekeeping, time zones, and Daylight Saving Time
- About the ISO-8601 standard for date, time, and date-time keeping
- How to represent date, time, and date-time using the Date-Time API classes and how to query, adjust, format, and parse them
- How to use the legacy Date-Time API
- How to interoperate between the legacy and new Date-Time APIs
The Date-Time API
Java 8 introduced a new Date-Time API to work with date and time. In this chapter, I will refer to the date- and time-related classes ...
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