java1.8时间好处,Java 1.8时间功能

So Java 1.8 comes with a whole new (and old) bunch of classes to manage time calculations: java.time.Instant, java.time.LocalTime, java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit, and maybe more...

But why is there no simple way to calculate the time difference between any of these? I would expect "time_later - time_earlier" to be the most used manipulation of time, but this is nowhere to be seen. I cannot subtract one LocalTime from the other and get a new LocalTime; I cannot subtract one Instant from the other to get a new Instant. Instead I have to fiddle with ChronoUnits.between, and long milliseconds and whatnots to achieve this very useful thing.

Why is this? There has to be something going on that I do not get? Or I'm just daft...?

解决方案

Before Java 8, the usual answer to your question was "use Joda Time"

But the author of Joda Time (Stephen Colebourne) was deeply involved in the new Java 8 time classes and methods. Here are two very good articles:

For your specific question, you might want to consider Java 8 "Duration" and "LocalTime", "LocalDate" and/or "LocalTimeDate" (among other options):

// A duration of 3 seconds and 5 nanoseconds

Duration duration = Duration.ofSeconds(3, 5);

Duration oneDay = Duration.between(today, yesterday);

// Tomorrow

LocalDate tomorrow = LocalDate.now().plusDays(1);

// Yesterday

LocalDate yesterday = LocalDate.now().plusDays(-1);

// before 5 houres and 30 minutes

LocalDateTime dateTime = LocalDateTime.now().minusHours(5).minusMinutes(30);