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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  * <p>
 123  * This is a <a href="{@docRoot}/java.base/java/lang/doc-files/ValueBased.html">value-based</a>
 124  * class; programmers should treat instances that are
 125  * {@linkplain #equals(Object) equal} as interchangeable and should not
 126  * use instances for synchronization, or unpredictable behavior may
 127  * occur. For example, in a future release, synchronization may fail.
 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 @jdk.internal.ValueBased

 136 public final class LocalDateTime
 137         implements Temporal, TemporalAdjuster, ChronoLocalDateTime<LocalDate>, Serializable {
 138 
 139     /**
 140      * The minimum supported {@code LocalDateTime}, '-999999999-01-01T00:00:00'.
 141      * This is the local date-time of midnight at the start of the minimum date.
 142      * This combines {@link LocalDate#MIN} and {@link LocalTime#MIN}.
 143      * This could be used by an application as a "far past" date-time.
 144      */
 145     public static final LocalDateTime MIN = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.MIN, LocalTime.MIN);
 146     /**
 147      * The maximum supported {@code LocalDateTime}, '+999999999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999'.
 148      * This is the local date-time just before midnight at the end of the maximum date.
 149      * This combines {@link LocalDate#MAX} and {@link LocalTime#MAX}.
 150      * This could be used by an application as a "far future" date-time.
 151      */
 152     public static final LocalDateTime MAX = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.MAX, LocalTime.MAX);
 153 
 154     /**
 155      * Serialization version.

 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  * <p>
 123  * This is a <a href="{@docRoot}/java.base/java/lang/doc-files/ValueBased.html">value-based</a>
 124  * class; programmers should treat instances that are {@linkplain #equals(Object) equal}
 125  * as interchangeable and should not use instances for synchronization, mutexes, or
 126  * with {@linkplain java.lang.ref.Reference object references}.
 127  *
 128  * <div class="preview-block">
 129  *      <div class="preview-comment">
 130  *          When preview features are enabled, {@code LocalDateTime} is a {@linkplain Class#isValue value class}.
 131  *          Use of value class instances for synchronization, mutexes, or with
 132  *          {@linkplain java.lang.ref.Reference object references} result in
 133  *          {@link IdentityException}.
 134  *      </div>
 135  * </div>
 136  *
 137  * @implSpec
 138  * This class is immutable and thread-safe.
 139  *
 140  * @since 1.8
 141  */
 142 @jdk.internal.ValueBased
 143 @jdk.internal.MigratedValueClass
 144 public final class LocalDateTime
 145         implements Temporal, TemporalAdjuster, ChronoLocalDateTime<LocalDate>, Serializable {
 146 
 147     /**
 148      * The minimum supported {@code LocalDateTime}, '-999999999-01-01T00:00:00'.
 149      * This is the local date-time of midnight at the start of the minimum date.
 150      * This combines {@link LocalDate#MIN} and {@link LocalTime#MIN}.
 151      * This could be used by an application as a "far past" date-time.
 152      */
 153     public static final LocalDateTime MIN = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.MIN, LocalTime.MIN);
 154     /**
 155      * The maximum supported {@code LocalDateTime}, '+999999999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999'.
 156      * This is the local date-time just before midnight at the end of the maximum date.
 157      * This combines {@link LocalDate#MAX} and {@link LocalTime#MAX}.
 158      * This could be used by an application as a "far future" date-time.
 159      */
 160     public static final LocalDateTime MAX = LocalDateTime.of(LocalDate.MAX, LocalTime.MAX);
 161 
 162     /**
 163      * Serialization version.
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