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P. Späth, J. FriesenLearn Java for Android Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5943-6_17

17. Date and Time

Peter Späth1  and Jeff Friesen2
(1)
Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
(2)
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
 

Handling dates and times in a computer system is a considerably big challenge. We need to take care of different calendar systems, different time zones, daylight saving switches, and language- and country-dependent date and time formatting.

Java includes a sophisticated date and time handling, which is up to JDK version 7 in the majority of use cases boiled down to using classes java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar, java.text.SimpleDateFormat, and the function System.currentTimeMillis().

Only starting with JDK version ...

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