Several parsing and formatting changes have been incorporated to bring the functionality closer to Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML). These changes have been supervised by Stephen Colebourne, creator of the popular library JodaTime, precursor of the new java.time component in Java 8…<\/b>
A number of parsing and formatting changes have been incorporated in Java 9 to bring the functionality closer to Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML). These changes have been supervised by Stephen Colebourne, creator of the popular date-time library JodaTime , precursor of the new java.time component in Java 8. Abiding by the Unicode standard will provide better interoperability with other non-Java systems.
LDML is the language used by the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), a project of the Unicode Consortium to gather and store locale data from different parts of the world, enabling application developers to better adapt their programs to different cultures. Among other things, LDML deals with dates, times, and timezones, and more particularly with date formatting and parsing. The following is an extract of new features coming in Java 9 that bring java.time closer to the LDML specification:
As previously mentioned, a better alignment with the LDML will ease interoperability across systems, since there are multiple technologies that have adopted the LDML to some degree. Microsoft. NET uses LDML for general interexchange of locale data, and there are packages available for Node.js and Ruby, just to mention a few.<\/p>\n