Period and Duration
Explore how to work with Java 8's Period and Duration classes to represent and calculate date-based and time-based intervals. Understand methods to create periods and durations, find differences between dates and times, and extract specific components like years, months, days, or minutes for effective time management in Java.
If we need to show the amount of time taken e.g 2 days or 3 hours then we need to use the Period and Duration classes introduced in Java 8 time API.
Let’s have a deeper look into these classes.
Period
A period represents the date-based amount of time in the ISO-8601 calendar system, such as 2 years, 3 months, and 4 days. This class is used to ...