Package net.sf.mmm.util.date.api

Provides the API for utilities that help to deal with date and time.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
DurationUtil	This is a collection of utility functions for dealing with time and durations.
Iso8601Util	This is a collection of utility functions for formatting and parsing dates according to ISO 8601 formats.
Iso8601UtilLimited	This is a limited subset of Iso8601Util that is GWT compatible.

Class Summary

Class	Description
Helper	Helper for code that is GWT incompatible and needs to be super-sourced.
TimeMeasure	This class makes it very easy to do performance monitoring.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
TimeMeasure.Result	The state of the completion.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
IllegalDateFormatException	This is the exception thrown if a date given as string was illegal.

Package net.sf.mmm.util.date.api Description

Provides the API for utilities that help to deal with date and time.

Util Date API

This package contains the API for utilities that help to deal with date and time. The JDK comes with rich support for date and time. On the other side the APIs like Date and Calendar are very poor. This problem has been solved with Java 8 and JSR310. Where ever possible we strongly encourage you to use JSR310 (java.time.*). However until then and for some other gaps you might find helpful types in this package.
E.g. representation of date and time there is a common standard with ISO 8601. Therefore Iso8601Util comes with support to format and parse date and time according to this standard in a stateless and thread-safe way. Further for for simplifying performance measurement there is TimeMeasure that makes your life easier.