Convert between LocalDate and LocalDateTime

Learn to convert from LocalDate to LocalDateTime and from LocalDateTime to LocalDate in Java 8.

To restate, LocalDate represents a calendar date without time and timezone. LocalDateTime stores the date and time information in the local timeline. It does not have any timezone information.

LocalDateTime = LocalDate + LocalTime

1. LocalDate -> LocalDateTime

To convert a LocalDate instance to LocalDateTime instance, we need to add only the time part in it. For this, we can use either of the given 5 methods of LocalDate class.

• LocalDateTime atStartOfDay()
• LocalDateTime atTime(LocalTime time)
• LocalDateTime atTime(int hour, int minutes)
• LocalDateTime atTime(int hour, int minutes, int seconds)
• LocalDateTime atTime(int hour, int minute, int second, int nanoOfSecond)

The method atStartOfDay() returns a LocalDateTime formed from the given date at the time of midnight, 00:00, at the start of the given date.

For all other methods, we provide the specific time in method arguments.

• hour – the hour-of-day to use, from 0 to 23
• minute – the minute-of-hour to use, from 0 to 59
• second – the second-of-minute to represent, from 0 to 59
• nanoOfSecond – the nano-of-second to represent, from 0 to 999,999,999

Java program to convert a LocalDate instance to LocalDateTime instance.

LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse("2019-01-04");

//Beginning of the day
LocalDateTime localDateTime1 = localDate.atStartOfDay();
System.out.println(localDateTime1);

//Current time
LocalDateTime localDateTime2 = localDate.atTime(LocalTime.now());
System.out.println(localDateTime2);

//Specific time
LocalDateTime localDateTime3 = localDate.atTime(04, 30, 56);
System.out.println(localDateTime3);

Program output.

2019-01-04T00:00
2019-01-04T18:31:21.936
2019-01-04T04:30:56

2. LocalDateTime -> LocalDate

To convert LocalDateTime to LocalDate instance, use toLocalDate() method. It returns a LocalDate with the same year, month and day as in the original localdatetime object.

LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.now();

LocalDate localDate = localDateTime.toLocalDate();

System.out.println(localDate);

Program output.

2019-04-01

Happy Learning !!

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