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 104  * often viewed as year-month-day-hour-minute-second. Other date and time fields,
 105  * such as day-of-year, day-of-week and week-of-year, can also be accessed.
 106  * Time is represented to nanosecond precision.
 107  * For example, the value "2nd October 2007 at 13:45.30.123456789" can be
 108  * stored in a {@code LocalDateTime}.
 109  * <p>
 110  * This class does not store or represent a time-zone.
 111  * Instead, it is a description of the date, as used for birthdays, combined with
 112  * the local time as seen on a wall clock.
 113  * It cannot represent an instant on the time-line without additional information
 114  * such as an offset or time-zone.
 115  * <p>
 116  * The ISO-8601 calendar system is the modern civil calendar system used today
 117  * in most of the world. It is equivalent to the proleptic Gregorian calendar
 118  * system, in which today's rules for leap years are applied for all time.
 119  * For most applications written today, the ISO-8601 rules are entirely suitable.
 120  * However, any application that makes use of historical dates, and requires them
 121  * to be accurate will find the ISO-8601 approach unsuitable.
 122  *
 123  * <p>
 124  * This is a <a href="{@docRoot}/java/lang/doc-files/ValueBased.html">value-based</a>
 125  * class; use of identity-sensitive operations (including reference equality
 126  * ({@code ==}), identity hash code, or synchronization) on instances of
 127  * {@code LocalDateTime} may have unpredictable results and should be avoided.
 128  * The {@code equals} method should be used for comparisons.
 129  *
 130  * @implSpec
 131  * This class is immutable and thread-safe.
 132  *
 133  * @since 1.8
 134  */
 135 public final class LocalDateTime
 136         implements Temporal, TemporalAdjuster, ChronoLocalDateTime<LocalDate>, Serializable {
 137 
 138     /**
 139      * The minimum supported {@code LocalDateTime}, '-999999999-01-01T00:00:00'.
 140      * This is the local date-time of midnight at the start of the minimum date.
 141      * This combines {@link LocalDate#MIN} and {@link LocalTime#MIN}.
 142      * This could be used by an application as a "far past" date-time.
 143      */
 144     public static final LocalDateTime MIN = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.MIN, LocalTime.MIN);




 104  * often viewed as year-month-day-hour-minute-second. Other date and time fields,
 105  * such as day-of-year, day-of-week and week-of-year, can also be accessed.
 106  * Time is represented to nanosecond precision.
 107  * For example, the value "2nd October 2007 at 13:45.30.123456789" can be
 108  * stored in a {@code LocalDateTime}.
 109  * <p>
 110  * This class does not store or represent a time-zone.
 111  * Instead, it is a description of the date, as used for birthdays, combined with
 112  * the local time as seen on a wall clock.
 113  * It cannot represent an instant on the time-line without additional information
 114  * such as an offset or time-zone.
 115  * <p>
 116  * The ISO-8601 calendar system is the modern civil calendar system used today
 117  * in most of the world. It is equivalent to the proleptic Gregorian calendar
 118  * system, in which today's rules for leap years are applied for all time.
 119  * For most applications written today, the ISO-8601 rules are entirely suitable.
 120  * However, any application that makes use of historical dates, and requires them
 121  * to be accurate will find the ISO-8601 approach unsuitable.
 122  *
 123  * <p>
 124  * This is a <a href="{@docRoot}/java.base/java/lang/doc-files/ValueBased.html">value-based</a>
 125  * class; use of identity-sensitive operations (including reference equality
 126  * ({@code ==}), identity hash code, or synchronization) on instances of
 127  * {@code LocalDateTime} may have unpredictable results and should be avoided.
 128  * The {@code equals} method should be used for comparisons.
 129  *
 130  * @implSpec
 131  * This class is immutable and thread-safe.
 132  *
 133  * @since 1.8
 134  */
 135 public final class LocalDateTime
 136         implements Temporal, TemporalAdjuster, ChronoLocalDateTime<LocalDate>, Serializable {
 137 
 138     /**
 139      * The minimum supported {@code LocalDateTime}, '-999999999-01-01T00:00:00'.
 140      * This is the local date-time of midnight at the start of the minimum date.
 141      * This combines {@link LocalDate#MIN} and {@link LocalTime#MIN}.
 142      * This could be used by an application as a "far past" date-time.
 143      */
 144     public static final LocalDateTime MIN = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.MIN, LocalTime.MIN);


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