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With Java 8, the JDK was extended with some functionality for date processing. First, the rather unintuitive machine time exists, which proceeds linearly and is represented by the class java.time.Instant. However, various classes are better suited to human ways of thinking. For example, the classes LocalDate, LocalTime, and LocalDateTime from the package java.time represent date values without time zones in the form of a date, a time, and a combination thereof.
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In particular, you are usually not interested in the time zone in which the appointments take place— except for telephone appointments with overseas business partners, for example.
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Variable length time units, such as months, are not supported.
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations; this results from the historical naming Period, so P, and the T stands for Time.
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Inden, M. (2022). Date Processing. In: Java Challenges. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7395-1_6
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