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Creating Date/Time Objects and Enums

Creating Date/Time Objects and Enums

Learn about creating new date and time class objects and enums.

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Creating date and time objects

Creating new date and time objects is much easier and less error-prone in Java 8. Every type is immutable and has static factory methods. For example, creating a new LocalDate for March 15, 2014 is as simple as:

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import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.Period;
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
public class datetime {    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        LocalDate date = LocalDate.of(2014, 3, 15);
        System.out.println(date);
 
    }
}

For more type safety, we can use the new Month enum:

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import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.Month;
public class datetime {    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        LocalDate date = LocalDate.of(2014, Month.MARCH, 15);
        System.out.println(date);
 
    }
}

We can also easily create a LocalDateTime by combining an ...