

System, in which today's rules for leap years are applied for all time.įor most applications written today, the ISO-8601 rules are entirely suitable. It is equivalent to the proleptic Gregorian calendar The ISO-8601 calendar system is the modern civil calendar system used today It cannot represent an instant on the time-line without additional information Instead, it is a description of the date, as used for birthdays. This class does not store or represent a time or time-zone. Other date fields, such as day-of-year,ĭay-of-week and week-of-year, can also be accessed.įor example, the value "2nd October 2007" can be stored in a LocalDate. LocalDate is an immutable date-time object that represents a date,

A date without a time-zone in the ISO-8601 calendar system,
