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Displaying Dates in the Timezone of the User 1. Overview In this installment of the Reddit app case study, we’re going to be adding the be scheduling post’s according to the user’s timezone. Dealing with timezones is notoriously difficult and the technical options are wide open. Our first concern is… Continue Reading reddit-app-show-date-in-the-users-timezone

Increment Date in Java 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll look at ways to increment date by one day using Java. Before Java 8, the standard Java date and time libraries weren’t very user-friendly. Hence, Joda-Time became the de facto standard date and time library for Java prior to Java 8.… Continue Reading java-increment-date

Set the Time Zone of a Date in Java 1. Overview In this quick tutorial, we’ll see how to set the time zone of a date using Java 7, Java 8 and the Joda-Time library. 2. Using Java 8 Java 8 introduced a new Date-Time API for working with dates and times… Continue Reading java-set-date-time-zone

Query Entities by Dates and Times with Spring Data JPA 1. Introduction In this quick tutorial, we’ll see how to query entities by dates with Spring Data JPA. We’ll first refresh our memory about how to map dates and times with JPA. Then, we’ll create an entity with date and time fields… Continue Reading spring-data-jpa-query-by-date

Get Date Without Time in Java 1. Introduction In this short tutorial, we’ll show how to get a Date without time in Java. We’ll show how to do this before and after Java 8 since things have become a bit different after the release of the new time API in… Continue Reading java-date-without-time

Working with Date Parameters in Spring 1. Introduction In this short tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to accept Date, LocalDate and LocalDateTime parameters in Spring REST requests, both at the request and application levels. 2. The Problem Let’s consider a controller with three methods that accept Date, LocalDate and… Continue Reading spring-date-parameters

Finding Leap Years in Java 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate several ways to determine if a given year is a leap year in Java. A leap year is a year that is divisible by 4 and 400 without a remainder. Thus, years that are divisible by 100 but not… Continue Reading java-leap-year