Java 8 Date - LocalDate, LocalDateTime, Instant With Examples [Latest]

Java 8 Date Time API is one of the most sought after change for developers. Java has been missing a consistent approach for Date and Time from start and Java 8 Date Time API is a welcome addition to the core Java APIs.

Before we start looking at the Java 8 Date Time API, let’s see why do we need a new API for this. There have been several problems with the existing date and time related classes in java, some of them are:

There are some other issues with the methods defined in Date and Calendar classes but above problems make it clear that a robust Date Time API was needed in Java. That’s why Joda Time played a key role as a quality replacement for Java Date Time requirements.

Java 8 Date Time API is JSR-310 implementation. It is designed to overcome all the flaws in the legacy date time implementations. Some of the design principles of new Date Time API are:

Java 8 Date Time API consists of following packages.

We have looked into most of the important parts of Java Date Time API. It’s time now to look into most important classes of Date Time API with examples.

LocalDate

LocalDate is an immutable class that represents Date with default format of yyyy-MM-dd. We can use now() method to get the current date. We can also provide input arguments for year, month and date to create LocalDate instance. This class provides overloaded method for now() where we can pass ZoneId for getting date in specific time zone. This class provides the same functionality as java.sql.Date. Let’s look at a simple example for it’s usage.


package com.journaldev.java8.time;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.Month;
import java.time.ZoneId;
/**
 * LocalDate Examples
 * @author pankaj
 *
 */
public class LocalDateExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		//Current Date
		LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
		System.out.println("Current Date="+today);
		//Creating LocalDate by providing input arguments
		LocalDate firstDay_2014 = LocalDate.of(2014, Month.JANUARY, 1);
		System.out.println("Specific Date="+firstDay_2014);
		//Try creating date by providing invalid inputs
		//LocalDate feb29_2014 = LocalDate.of(2014, Month.FEBRUARY, 29);
		//Exception in thread "main" java.time.DateTimeException:
		//Invalid date 'February 29' as '2014' is not a leap year
		//Current date in "Asia/Kolkata", you can get it from ZoneId javadoc
		LocalDate todayKolkata = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata"));
		System.out.println("Current Date in IST="+todayKolkata);
		//java.time.zone.ZoneRulesException: Unknown time-zone ID: IST
		//LocalDate todayIST = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of("IST"));
		//Getting date from the base date i.e 01/01/1970
		LocalDate dateFromBase = LocalDate.ofEpochDay(365);
		System.out.println("365th day from base date= "+dateFromBase);
		LocalDate hundredDay2014 = LocalDate.ofYearDay(2014, 100);
		System.out.println("100th day of 2014="+hundredDay2014);
	}
}

package com.journaldev.java8.time;

import java.time.LocalDate;

import java.time.Month;

import java.time.ZoneId;

/**

* LocalDate Examples

* @author pankaj

public class LocalDateExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

//Current Date

LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();

System.out.println("Current Date="+today);

//Creating LocalDate by providing input arguments

LocalDate firstDay_2014 = LocalDate.of(2014, Month.JANUARY, 1);

System.out.println("Specific Date="+firstDay_2014);

//Try creating date by providing invalid inputs

//LocalDate feb29_2014 = LocalDate.of(2014, Month.FEBRUARY, 29);

//Exception in thread "main" java.time.DateTimeException:

//Invalid date 'February 29' as '2014' is not a leap year

//Current date in "Asia/Kolkata", you can get it from ZoneId javadoc

LocalDate todayKolkata = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata"));

System.out.println("Current Date in IST="+todayKolkata);

//java.time.zone.ZoneRulesException: Unknown time-zone ID: IST

//LocalDate todayIST = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.of("IST"));

//Getting date from the base date i.e 01/01/1970

LocalDate dateFromBase = LocalDate.ofEpochDay(365);

System.out.println("365th day from base date= "+dateFromBase);

LocalDate hundredDay2014 = LocalDate.ofYearDay(2014, 100);

System.out.println("100th day of 2014="+hundredDay2014);

}

LocalDate methods explanation is provided in comments, when we run this program, we get following output.

<span style="color: #008000;"><strong><code>
Current Date=2014-04-28
Specific Date=2014-01-01
Current Date in IST=2014-04-29
365th day from base date= 1971-01-01
100th day of 2014=2014-04-10
</code></strong></span>

<code>

Current Date=2014-04-28

Specific Date=2014-01-01

Current Date in IST=2014-04-29

365th day from base date= 1971-01-01

100th day of 2014=2014-04-10

</code>

LocalTime

LocalTime is an immutable class whose instance represents a time in the human readable format. It’s default format is hh:mm:ss.zzz. Just like LocalDate, this class provides time zone support and creating instance by passing hour, minute and second as input arguments. Let’s look at it’s usage with a simple program.


package com.journaldev.java8.time;
import java.time.LocalTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
/**
 * LocalTime Examples
 * @author pankaj
 *
 */
public class LocalTimeExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		//Current Time
		LocalTime time = LocalTime.now();
		System.out.println("Current Time="+time);
		//Creating LocalTime by providing input arguments
		LocalTime specificTime = LocalTime.of(12,20,25,40);
		System.out.println("Specific Time of Day="+specificTime);
		//Try creating time by providing invalid inputs
		//LocalTime invalidTime = LocalTime.of(25,20);
		//Exception in thread "main" java.time.DateTimeException:
		//Invalid value for HourOfDay (valid values 0 - 23): 25
		//Current date in "Asia/Kolkata", you can get it from ZoneId javadoc
		LocalTime timeKolkata = LocalTime.now(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata"));
		System.out.println("Current Time in IST="+timeKolkata);
		//java.time.zone.ZoneRulesException: Unknown time-zone ID: IST
		//LocalTime todayIST = LocalTime.now(ZoneId.of("IST"));
		//Getting date from the base date i.e 01/01/1970
		LocalTime specificSecondTime = LocalTime.ofSecondOfDay(10000);
		System.out.println("10000th second time= "+specificSecondTime);
	}
}

package com.journaldev.java8.time;

import java.time.LocalTime;

import java.time.ZoneId;

/**

* LocalTime Examples

* @author pankaj

public class LocalTimeExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

//Current Time

LocalTime time = LocalTime.now();

System.out.println("Current Time="+time);

//Creating LocalTime by providing input arguments

LocalTime specificTime = LocalTime.of(12,20,25,40);

System.out.println("Specific Time of Day="+specificTime);

//Try creating time by providing invalid inputs

//LocalTime invalidTime = LocalTime.of(25,20);

//Exception in thread "main" java.time.DateTimeException:

//Invalid value for HourOfDay (valid values 0 - 23): 25

//Current date in "Asia/Kolkata", you can get it from ZoneId javadoc

LocalTime timeKolkata = LocalTime.now(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata"));

System.out.println("Current Time in IST="+timeKolkata);

//java.time.zone.ZoneRulesException: Unknown time-zone ID: IST

//LocalTime todayIST = LocalTime.now(ZoneId.of("IST"));

//Getting date from the base date i.e 01/01/1970

LocalTime specificSecondTime = LocalTime.ofSecondOfDay(10000);

System.out.println("10000th second time= "+specificSecondTime);

}

When we run above program for LocalTime examples, we get following output.

<span style="color: #008000;"><strong><code>
Current Time=15:51:45.240
Specific Time of Day=12:20:25.000000040
Current Time in IST=04:21:45.276
10000th second time= 02:46:40
</code></strong></span>

<code>

Current Time=15:51:45.240

Specific Time of Day=12:20:25.000000040

Current Time in IST=04:21:45.276

10000th second time= 02:46:40

</code>

LocalDateTime

LocalDateTime is an immutable date-time object that represents a date-time, with default format as yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss.zzz. It provides a factory method that takes LocalDate and LocalTime input arguments to create LocalDateTime instance. Let’s look it’s usage with a simple example.


package com.journaldev.java8.time;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.LocalTime;
import java.time.Month;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;
public class LocalDateTimeExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		//Current Date
		LocalDateTime today = LocalDateTime.now();
		System.out.println("Current DateTime="+today);
		//Current Date using LocalDate and LocalTime
		today = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.now(), LocalTime.now());
		System.out.println("Current DateTime="+today);
		//Creating LocalDateTime by providing input arguments
		LocalDateTime specificDate = LocalDateTime.of(2014, Month.JANUARY, 1, 10, 10, 30);
		System.out.println("Specific Date="+specificDate);
		//Try creating date by providing invalid inputs
		//LocalDateTime feb29_2014 = LocalDateTime.of(2014, Month.FEBRUARY, 28, 25,1,1);
		//Exception in thread "main" java.time.DateTimeException:
		//Invalid value for HourOfDay (valid values 0 - 23): 25
		//Current date in "Asia/Kolkata", you can get it from ZoneId javadoc
		LocalDateTime todayKolkata = LocalDateTime.now(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata"));
		System.out.println("Current Date in IST="+todayKolkata);
		//java.time.zone.ZoneRulesException: Unknown time-zone ID: IST
		//LocalDateTime todayIST = LocalDateTime.now(ZoneId.of("IST"));
		//Getting date from the base date i.e 01/01/1970
		LocalDateTime dateFromBase = LocalDateTime.ofEpochSecond(10000, 0, ZoneOffset.UTC);
		System.out.println("10000th second time from 01/01/1970= "+dateFromBase);
	}
}

package com.journaldev.java8.time;

import java.time.LocalDate;

import java.time.LocalDateTime;

import java.time.LocalTime;

import java.time.Month;

import java.time.ZoneId;

import java.time.ZoneOffset;

public class LocalDateTimeExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

//Current Date

LocalDateTime today = LocalDateTime.now();

System.out.println("Current DateTime="+today);

//Current Date using LocalDate and LocalTime

today = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.now(), LocalTime.now());

System.out.println("Current DateTime="+today);

//Creating LocalDateTime by providing input arguments

LocalDateTime specificDate = LocalDateTime.of(2014, Month.JANUARY, 1, 10, 10, 30);

System.out.println("Specific Date="+specificDate);

//Try creating date by providing invalid inputs

//LocalDateTime feb29_2014 = LocalDateTime.of(2014, Month.FEBRUARY, 28, 25,1,1);

//Exception in thread "main" java.time.DateTimeException:

//Invalid value for HourOfDay (valid values 0 - 23): 25

//Current date in "Asia/Kolkata", you can get it from ZoneId javadoc

LocalDateTime todayKolkata = LocalDateTime.now(ZoneId.of("Asia/Kolkata"));

System.out.println("Current Date in IST="+todayKolkata);

//java.time.zone.ZoneRulesException: Unknown time-zone ID: IST

//LocalDateTime todayIST = LocalDateTime.now(ZoneId.of("IST"));

//Getting date from the base date i.e 01/01/1970

LocalDateTime dateFromBase = LocalDateTime.ofEpochSecond(10000, 0, ZoneOffset.UTC);

System.out.println("10000th second time from 01/01/1970= "+dateFromBase);

}

In all the three examples, we have seen that if we provide invalid arguments for creating Date/Time, then it throws java.time.DateTimeException that is a RuntimeException, so we don’t need to explicitly catch it.

We have also seen that we can get Date/Time data by passing ZoneId, you can get the list of supported ZoneId values from it’s javadoc. When we run above class, we get following output.

<span style="color: #003300;"><strong><code>
Current DateTime=2014-04-28T16:00:49.455
Current DateTime=2014-04-28T16:00:49.493
Specific Date=2014-01-01T10:10:30
Current Date in IST=2014-04-29T04:30:49.493
10000th second time from 01/01/1970= 1970-01-01T02:46:40
</code></strong></span>

<code>

Current DateTime=2014-04-28T16:00:49.455

Current DateTime=2014-04-28T16:00:49.493

Specific Date=2014-01-01T10:10:30

Current Date in IST=2014-04-29T04:30:49.493

10000th second time from 01/01/1970= 1970-01-01T02:46:40

</code>

Instant

Instant class is used to work with machine readable time format, it stores date time in unix timestamp. Let’s see it’s usage with a simple program.


package com.journaldev.java8.time;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.time.Instant;
public class InstantExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		//Current timestamp
		Instant timestamp = Instant.now();
		System.out.println("Current Timestamp = "+timestamp);
		//Instant from timestamp
		Instant specificTime = Instant.ofEpochMilli(timestamp.toEpochMilli());
		System.out.println("Specific Time = "+specificTime);
		//Duration example
		Duration thirtyDay = Duration.ofDays(30);
		System.out.println(thirtyDay);
	}
}

package com.journaldev.java8.time;

import java.time.Duration;

import java.time.Instant;

public class InstantExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

//Current timestamp

Instant timestamp = Instant.now();

System.out.println("Current Timestamp = "+timestamp);

//Instant from timestamp

Instant specificTime = Instant.ofEpochMilli(timestamp.toEpochMilli());

System.out.println("Specific Time = "+specificTime);

//Duration example

Duration thirtyDay = Duration.ofDays(30);

System.out.println(thirtyDay);

}

Output of above program is:

<span style="color: #008000;"><strong><code>
Current Timestamp = 2014-04-28T23:20:08.489Z
Specific Time = 2014-04-28T23:20:08.489Z
PT720H
</code></strong></span>

<code>

Current Timestamp = 2014-04-28T23:20:08.489Z

Specific Time = 2014-04-28T23:20:08.489Z

PT720H

</code>

Java 8 Date API Utilities

As mentioned earlier, most of the Date Time principle classes provide various utility methods such as plus/minus days, weeks, months etc. There are some other utility methods for adjusting the date using TemporalAdjuster and to calculate the period between two dates.


package com.journaldev.java8.time;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalTime;
import java.time.Period;
import java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters;
public class DateAPIUtilities {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
		//Get the Year, check if it's leap year
		System.out.println("Year "+today.getYear()+" is Leap Year? "+today.isLeapYear());
		//Compare two LocalDate for before and after
		System.out.println("Today is before 01/01/2015? "+today.isBefore(LocalDate.of(2015,1,1)));
		//Create LocalDateTime from LocalDate
		System.out.println("Current Time="+today.atTime(LocalTime.now()));
		//plus and minus operations
		System.out.println("10 days after today will be "+today.plusDays(10));
		System.out.println("3 weeks after today will be "+today.plusWeeks(3));
		System.out.println("20 months after today will be "+today.plusMonths(20));
		System.out.println("10 days before today will be "+today.minusDays(10));
		System.out.println("3 weeks before today will be "+today.minusWeeks(3));
		System.out.println("20 months before today will be "+today.minusMonths(20));
		//Temporal adjusters for adjusting the dates
		System.out.println("First date of this month= "+today.with(TemporalAdjusters.firstDayOfMonth()));
		LocalDate lastDayOfYear = today.with(TemporalAdjusters.lastDayOfYear());
		System.out.println("Last date of this year= "+lastDayOfYear);
		Period period = today.until(lastDayOfYear);
		System.out.println("Period Format= "+period);
		System.out.println("Months remaining in the year= "+period.getMonths());
	}
}

package com.journaldev.java8.time;

import java.time.LocalDate;

import java.time.LocalTime;

import java.time.Period;

import java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters;

public class DateAPIUtilities {

public static void main(String[] args) {

LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();

//Get the Year, check if it's leap year

System.out.println("Year "+today.getYear()+" is Leap Year? "+today.isLeapYear());

//Compare two LocalDate for before and after

System.out.println("Today is before 01/01/2015? "+today.isBefore(LocalDate.of(2015,1,1)));

//Create LocalDateTime from LocalDate

System.out.println("Current Time="+today.atTime(LocalTime.now()));

//plus and minus operations

System.out.println("10 days after today will be "+today.plusDays(10));

System.out.println("3 weeks after today will be "+today.plusWeeks(3));

System.out.println("20 months after today will be "+today.plusMonths(20));

System.out.println("10 days before today will be "+today.minusDays(10));

System.out.println("3 weeks before today will be "+today.minusWeeks(3));

System.out.println("20 months before today will be "+today.minusMonths(20));

//Temporal adjusters for adjusting the dates

System.out.println("First date of this month= "+today.with(TemporalAdjusters.firstDayOfMonth()));

LocalDate lastDayOfYear = today.with(TemporalAdjusters.lastDayOfYear());

System.out.println("Last date of this year= "+lastDayOfYear);

Period period = today.until(lastDayOfYear);

System.out.println("Period Format= "+period);

System.out.println("Months remaining in the year= "+period.getMonths());

}

Output of above program is:

<span style="color: #008000;"><strong><code>
Year 2014 is Leap Year? false
Today is before 01/01/2015? true
Current Time=2014-04-28T16:23:53.154
10 days after today will be 2014-05-08
3 weeks after today will be 2014-05-19
20 months after today will be 2015-12-28
10 days before today will be 2014-04-18
3 weeks before today will be 2014-04-07
20 months before today will be 2012-08-28
First date of this month= 2014-04-01
Last date of this year= 2014-12-31
Period Format= P8M3D
Months remaining in the year= 8
</code></strong></span>

<code>

Year 2014 is Leap Year? false

Today is before 01/01/2015? true

Current Time=2014-04-28T16:23:53.154

10 days after today will be 2014-05-08

3 weeks after today will be 2014-05-19

20 months after today will be 2015-12-28

10 days before today will be 2014-04-18

3 weeks before today will be 2014-04-07

20 months before today will be 2012-08-28

First date of this month= 2014-04-01

Last date of this year= 2014-12-31

Period Format= P8M3D

Months remaining in the year= 8

</code>

Java 8 Date Parsing and Formatting

It’s very common to format date into different formats and then parse a String to get the Date Time objects. Let’s see it with simple examples.


package com.journaldev.java8.time;
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
public class DateParseFormatExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		//Format examples
		LocalDate date = LocalDate.now();
		//default format
		System.out.println("Default format of LocalDate="+date);
		//specific format
		System.out.println(date.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d::MMM::uuuu")));
		System.out.println(date.format(DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE));
		LocalDateTime dateTime = LocalDateTime.now();
		//default format
		System.out.println("Default format of LocalDateTime="+dateTime);
		//specific format
		System.out.println(dateTime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d::MMM::uuuu HH::mm::ss")));
		System.out.println(dateTime.format(DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE));
		Instant timestamp = Instant.now();
		//default format
		System.out.println("Default format of Instant="+timestamp);
		//Parse examples
		LocalDateTime dt = LocalDateTime.parse("27::Apr::2014 21::39::48",
				DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d::MMM::uuuu HH::mm::ss"));
		System.out.println("Default format after parsing = "+dt);
	}
}

package com.journaldev.java8.time;

import java.time.Instant;

import java.time.LocalDate;

import java.time.LocalDateTime;

import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

public class DateParseFormatExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

//Format examples

LocalDate date = LocalDate.now();

//default format

System.out.println("Default format of LocalDate="+date);

//specific format

System.out.println(date.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d::MMM::uuuu")));

System.out.println(date.format(DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE));

LocalDateTime dateTime = LocalDateTime.now();

//default format

System.out.println("Default format of LocalDateTime="+dateTime);

//specific format

System.out.println(dateTime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d::MMM::uuuu HH::mm::ss")));

System.out.println(dateTime.format(DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE));

Instant timestamp = Instant.now();

//default format

System.out.println("Default format of Instant="+timestamp);

//Parse examples

LocalDateTime dt = LocalDateTime.parse("27::Apr::2014 21::39::48",

DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("d::MMM::uuuu HH::mm::ss"));

System.out.println("Default format after parsing = "+dt);

}

When we run above program, we get following output.

<span style="color: #008000;"><strong><code>
Default format of LocalDate=2014-04-28
28::Apr::2014
20140428
Default format of LocalDateTime=2014-04-28T16:25:49.341
28::Apr::2014 16::25::49
20140428
Default format of Instant=2014-04-28T23:25:49.342Z
Default format after parsing = 2014-04-27T21:39:48
</code></strong></span>

<code>

Default format of LocalDate=2014-04-28

28::Apr::2014

20140428

Default format of LocalDateTime=2014-04-28T16:25:49.341

28::Apr::2014 16::25::49

20140428

Default format of Instant=2014-04-28T23:25:49.342Z

Default format after parsing = 2014-04-27T21:39:48

</code>

Java 8 Date API Legacy Date Time Support

Legacy Date/Time classes are used in almost all the applications, so having backward compatibility is a must. That’s why there are several utility methods through which we can convert Legacy classes to new classes and vice versa. Let’s see this with a simple example.


package com.journaldev.java8.time;
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZonedDateTime;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.TimeZone;
public class DateAPILegacySupport {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		//Date to Instant
		Instant timestamp = new Date().toInstant();
		//Now we can convert Instant to LocalDateTime or other similar classes
		LocalDateTime date = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(timestamp,
						ZoneId.of(ZoneId.SHORT_IDS.get("PST")));
		System.out.println("Date = "+date);
		//Calendar to Instant
		Instant time = Calendar.getInstance().toInstant();
		System.out.println(time);
		//TimeZone to ZoneId
		ZoneId defaultZone = TimeZone.getDefault().toZoneId();
		System.out.println(defaultZone);
		//ZonedDateTime from specific Calendar
		ZonedDateTime gregorianCalendarDateTime = new GregorianCalendar().toZonedDateTime();
		System.out.println(gregorianCalendarDateTime);
		//Date API to Legacy classes
		Date dt = Date.from(Instant.now());
		System.out.println(dt);
		TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone(defaultZone);
		System.out.println(tz);
		GregorianCalendar gc = GregorianCalendar.from(gregorianCalendarDateTime);
		System.out.println(gc);
	}
}

package com.journaldev.java8.time;

import java.time.Instant;

import java.time.LocalDateTime;

import java.time.ZoneId;

import java.time.ZonedDateTime;

import java.util.Calendar;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

import java.util.TimeZone;

public class DateAPILegacySupport {

public static void main(String[] args) {

//Date to Instant

Instant timestamp = new Date().toInstant();

//Now we can convert Instant to LocalDateTime or other similar classes

LocalDateTime date = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(timestamp,

ZoneId.of(ZoneId.SHORT_IDS.get("PST")));

System.out.println("Date = "+date);

//Calendar to Instant

Instant time = Calendar.getInstance().toInstant();

System.out.println(time);

//TimeZone to ZoneId

ZoneId defaultZone = TimeZone.getDefault().toZoneId();

System.out.println(defaultZone);

//ZonedDateTime from specific Calendar

ZonedDateTime gregorianCalendarDateTime = new GregorianCalendar().toZonedDateTime();

System.out.println(gregorianCalendarDateTime);

//Date API to Legacy classes

Date dt = Date.from(Instant.now());

System.out.println(dt);

TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone(defaultZone);

System.out.println(tz);

GregorianCalendar gc = GregorianCalendar.from(gregorianCalendarDateTime);

System.out.println(gc);

}

When we run above application, we get following output.

<span style="color: #008000;"><strong>
Date = 2014-04-28T16:28:54.340
2014-04-28T23:28:54.395Z
America/Los_Angeles
2014-04-28T16:28:54.404-07:00[America/Los_Angeles]
Mon Apr 28 16:28:54 PDT 2014
sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="America/Los_Angeles",offset=-28800000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,transitions=185,lastRule=java.util.SimpleTimeZone[id=America/Los_Angeles,offset=-28800000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,startYear=0,startMode=3,startMonth=2,startDay=8,startDayOfWeek=1,startTime=7200000,startTimeMode=0,endMode=3,endMonth=10,endDay=1,endDayOfWeek=1,endTime=7200000,endTimeMode=0]]
java.util.GregorianCalendar[time=1398727734404,areFieldsSet=true,areAllFieldsSet=true,lenient=true,zone=sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="America/Los_Angeles",offset=-28800000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,transitions=185,lastRule=java.util.SimpleTimeZone[id=America/Los_Angeles,offset=-28800000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,startYear=0,startMode=3,startMonth=2,startDay=8,startDayOfWeek=1,startTime=7200000,startTimeMode=0,endMode=3,endMonth=10,endDay=1,endDayOfWeek=1,endTime=7200000,endTimeMode=0]],firstDayOfWeek=2,minimalDaysInFirstWeek=4,ERA=1,YEAR=2014,MONTH=3,WEEK_OF_YEAR=18,WEEK_OF_MONTH=5,DAY_OF_MONTH=28,DAY_OF_YEAR=118,DAY_OF_WEEK=2,DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH=4,AM_PM=1,HOUR=4,HOUR_OF_DAY=16,MINUTE=28,SECOND=54,MILLISECOND=404,ZONE_OFFSET=-28800000,DST_OFFSET=3600000</strong></span>]

Date = 2014-04-28T16:28:54.340

2014-04-28T23:28:54.395Z

America/Los_Angeles

2014-04-28T16:28:54.404-07:00[America/Los_Angeles]

Mon Apr 28 16:28:54 PDT 2014

sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="America/Los_Angeles",offset=-28800000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,transitions=185,lastRule=java.util.SimpleTimeZone[id=America/Los_Angeles,offset=-28800000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,startYear=0,startMode=3,startMonth=2,startDay=8,startDayOfWeek=1,startTime=7200000,startTimeMode=0,endMode=3,endMonth=10,endDay=1,endDayOfWeek=1,endTime=7200000,endTimeMode=0]]

java.util.GregorianCalendar[time=1398727734404,areFieldsSet=true,areAllFieldsSet=true,lenient=true,zone=sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="America/Los_Angeles",offset=-28800000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,transitions=185,lastRule=java.util.SimpleTimeZone[id=America/Los_Angeles,offset=-28800000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=true,startYear=0,startMode=3,startMonth=2,startDay=8,startDayOfWeek=1,startTime=7200000,startTimeMode=0,endMode=3,endMonth=10,endDay=1,endDayOfWeek=1,endTime=7200000,endTimeMode=0]],firstDayOfWeek=2,minimalDaysInFirstWeek=4,ERA=1,YEAR=2014,MONTH=3,WEEK_OF_YEAR=18,WEEK_OF_MONTH=5,DAY_OF_MONTH=28,DAY_OF_YEAR=118,DAY_OF_WEEK=2,DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH=4,AM_PM=1,HOUR=4,HOUR_OF_DAY=16,MINUTE=28,SECOND=54,MILLISECOND=404,ZONE_OFFSET=-28800000,DST_OFFSET=3600000]

As you can see that legacy TimeZone and GregorianCalendar classes toString() methods are too verbose and not user friendly.

That’s all for Java 8 Date Time API, I like this new API a lot. Some of the most used classes will be LocalDate and LocalDateTime for this new API. It’s very easy to work with and having similar methods that does a particular job makes it easy to find. It will take some time from moving legacy classes to new Date Time classes, but I believe it will be worthy of the time.

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