Joda-Time

English Etymology Derives from a four letter name, beginning with the letter j whose domain name, joda.org, was available at the time. The choice of the name was arbitarily made by its creator, Stephen Colebourne, around 2002. It is not an acronym. Proper noun 1 en computing software programming A widely used date and time processing library. en 2001 Java Cookbook Ian F. Darwin 617 Several alternative Date replacement packages emerged, including the simple and sensible Date4J and the more comprehensive Joda-Time package. en 2007 Facelets Robert Swarr 64 Joda time is a complete alternative to the JDK date and time classes and seeks to replace them. en 2014 Practical Java 8 - Lambdas, Streams and New Resources Rodrigo Turini Joda-Time is a powerful open source library well known and used in the market that works with time, dates, and chronology: en 2015 Pro Java 8 Programming Terrill Brett Spell 94 Later the decision was made to integrate Joda-Time or something similar to it into Java's core libraries en 2023 Mastering Java Cybellium Ltd 156 The design of these classes was inspired by the Joda-Time library, which is a popular open-source date and time library for Java. en 2025 Mastering the Art of Clojure Programming: Unraveling the Secrets of Expert-Level Programming Steve Jones For instance, when integrating a date-time library like Joda-Time, one might wrap the mutable Java objects in immutable records, thereby providing a clear boundary between side-effecting Java calls and pure Clojure functions.