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Handling dates and times in a computer system is a considerably big challenge. We need to take care of different calendar systems, different time zones, daylight saving switches, and language- and country-dependent date and time formatting.
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Späth, P., Friesen, J. (2020). Date and Time. In: Learn Java for Android Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5943-6_17
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