Java SE 8—Date/Time API
This section’s example and several of this chapter’s later examples demonstrate various class-implementation concepts in classes that represent dates and times. In professional Java development, rather than building your own date and time classes, you’ll typically reuse the ones provided by the Java API. Though Java has always had classes for manipulating dates and times, Java SE 8 introduces a new Date/Time API—defined by the classes in the package java.time—applications built with Java SE 8 should use the Date/Time API’s capabilities, rather than those in earlier Java versions. The new API fixes various issues with the older classes and provides more robust, easier-to-use capabilities for manipulating dates, times, ...
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