Advantages over old Date-Time API

First, we see how the new API is better than the older one:

Thread Safety:

Since old date-time was not thread-safe. So we have to deal with concurrency issues while using date and to write additional code to handle thread-safety. So in Java 8 date and time are immutable and thread-safe, thus taking that concurrency headache away from us.

Poor Designing:

It had no uniformity. As default Date starts from 1900, the month starts from 1, and the day starts from 0. It had inadequate methods to perform day-to-day operations and there were fewer operations present. The new date-time API is ISO centric and follows consistent domain models for time, dates, duration, and periods and there is a wide variety of utility methods for such operations.

Zone Handling:

We had to write a lot of code to handle the zoning issue. But in new API handling of timezone can be done with Local and ZonedDate APIs.

Let’s perform some basic hands-on:

Current Date-Time

We can have handle Date and Time in 3 ways:

– LocalDate: LocalDate represents a date in ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd) without time.

– LocalTime: LocalTime represents time without a date.

– LocalDateTime: LocalDateTime is used to represent a combination of date and time.

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