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We as developers we are prone to think time is simple. However, time is a human construct, and as such is a complicated beast.
My goal of the talk is to give you an overview of the java.time API:
So that you are aware that there are different concepts there
and that you pick the right one for your use cases.
Let’s get started!
Assumptions: - Assuming Gregorian calendar - Leaving out Relativity - Ignoring Leapseconds - Ignoring 'wall-clock-jumps'
Mostly dates and time in for 'humans'
Old APIs
for a long time we had only lucky Java time APIs:
Date (original sin), sql.Date (horror down to the database) util.Calendar (OMG)
And some low level APIs: - System.currentTime - System.nanoTime
There was Joda time, which then inspired java.time,
a reasonable API. The important part in this API
is to understand the concepts it represents.
Otherwise, the API won’t help you.