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Kishori Sharan, Beginning Java 9 Fundamentals, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2902-6_16

16. Dates and Times

Kishori Sharan1 

(1)Montgomery, Alabama, USA

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 Savings Time

  • About the ISO-8601 standard for date, time, and datetime keeping

  • How to represent date, time, and datetime 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 was introduced in Java 8 and has been enhanced in Java 9 with a lot of new methods in several ...

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