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the Temporal interface. These methods allow you to move a Temporal back or forward a given
amount of time, defined by a number plus a Temporal-Unit, where the ChronoUnit enumeration
offers a convenient implementation of the TemporalUnit interface.

As you may have anticipated, all the date-time classes representing a point in time like
LocalDate, LocalTime, LocalDateTime, and Instant have many methods in common; table 12.2
summarizes these.

Table 12.2. The common methods of date-time classes representing a

point in time

Method Static Description

from Yes Creates an instance of this class from the passed temporal object

now Yes Creates a temporal object from the system clock

of Yes Creates an instance of this temporal object from its constituent parts

parse Yes Creates an instance of this temporal object from a String

atOffset No Combines this temporal object with a zone offset

atZone No Combines this temporal object with a time zone

format No Converts this temporal object into a String using the specified formatter (not

available for Instant)

get No Reads part of the state of this temporal object

minus No Creates a copy of this temporal object with an amount of time subtracted

plus No Creates a copy of this temporal object with an amount of time added

with No Creates a copy of this temporal object with part of the state changed

Check what you've learned up to now about manipulating dates with Quiz 12.1 .