Comment on Date and Time in Java 8: TimezonesparentComments−RyanZAG13yThen you're cringing for the wrong reasons - nearly every deployed language gets this wrong also (numeric timezones instead of descriptive ones) - java is actually one of the first to fix this stuff up.−autarch13yPerl has had the DateTime suite of modules since early 2003. (Shameless plug since I'm the author). https://metacpan.org/release/DateTime−joesb13ySo does Java. But, same as in Perl, it was not included in standard library.
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Then you're cringing for the wrong reasons - nearly every deployed language gets this wrong also (numeric timezones instead of descriptive ones) - java is actually one of the first to fix this stuff up.
Perl has had the DateTime suite of modules since early 2003. (Shameless plug since I'm the author). https://metacpan.org/release/DateTime
So does Java. But, same as in Perl, it was not included in standard library.