Tag: Joda Date Time

Introduction This tutorial shows how you can convert joda date time to SQL timestamp or vice versa. Java’s standard date and time classes (mainly java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar) have limited functionality and have a number of design problems. The fact that many of constructors and methods of java.util.Date are deprecated. Joda Time has a better thought out API than what is available in Java’s date and time standard library. There are classes for timestamps with or without a timezone, classes for holding only a date (year, month, day) or only a…

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This tutorial shows how we can use joda date time API. Java’s standard date and time classes (mainly java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar) have limited functionality and have a number of design problems. The fact that many of constructors and methods of java.util.Date are deprecated. Joda Time has a better thought out API than what is available in Java’s date and time standard library. There are classes for timestamps with or without a timezone, classes for holding only a date (year, month, day) or only a time of day, classes for periods,…

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