Package org.apache.commons.lang3.time

Provides classes and methods to work with dates and durations. These classes are immutable (and therefore thread-safe) apart from StopWatch.

The time package contains some basic utilities for manipulating time (a delorean, police box and grandfather clock?). These include a StopWatch for simple performance measurements and an optimised FastDateFormat class.

New in Lang 2.1 is the DurationFormatUtils class, which provides various methods for formatting durations.

Since:

2.0

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
DateParser	DateParser is the "missing" interface for the parsing methods of DateFormat.
DatePrinter	DatePrinter is the "missing" interface for the format methods of DateFormat.

Class Summary

Class	Description
CalendarUtils	Helps use Calendars.
DateFormatUtils	Date and time formatting utilities and constants.
DateUtils	A suite of utilities surrounding the use of the Calendar and Date object.
DateUtils.DateIterator	Date iterator.
DurationFormatUtils	Duration formatting utilities and constants.
DurationFormatUtils.Token	Element that is parsed from the format pattern.
DurationUtils	Utilities for Duration.
FastDateFormat	FastDateFormat is a fast and thread-safe version of SimpleDateFormat.
FastDateParser	FastDateParser is a fast and thread-safe version of SimpleDateFormat.
FastDateParser.TimeZoneStrategy	A strategy that handles a time zone field in the parsing pattern
FastDatePrinter	FastDatePrinter is a fast and thread-safe version of SimpleDateFormat.
FastTimeZone	Faster methods to produce custom time zones.
FormatCache<F extends Format>	FormatCache is a cache and factory for Formats.
GmtTimeZone	Custom time zone that contains offset from GMT.
StopWatch	StopWatch provides a convenient API for timings.
TimeZones	Helps to deal with TimeZones.