Nearly two yers ago a Java Specification Request was filed to provide a much needed overhaul of the Date and Time API for the Java platform. The official request has been logged as JSR 310: Date and Time API. As documented in the specification request the goal is to,
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...build upon the lessons learned from the first two APIs (Date and Calendar) in Java SE, providing a more advanced and comprehensive model for date and time manipulation.There are three areas identified that the new API will aim to improve:
- A data model for dates and times that provides much more than the existing Date and Calendar.
- Date and Time issues including formatting, parsing, serialization and persistence.
- Simple to use API.
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