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Nov 1, 2022 · Fundamentals

Common Java 8 Date and Time APIs: Getting Today’s Date and More

This article demonstrates how to use Java 8’s java.time package to obtain the current date and time, extract components, create specific dates, compare dates, handle periodic dates, compute future and past dates, retrieve timestamps, check leap years, calculate differences, and format/parse date strings, with concrete code examples.