Storing dates in databases was traditionally done with java.sql.Date and java.sql.Timestamp. Since we would like to write modern applications, with Java 8 or 11, it is preferable to use an OffsetDateTime or a LocalDateTime. Spring Data JPA, for example, is mapping those fields automatically to the correct database field. There are still some challenges in combination with PostgreSQL.

One of the goals I set for this year is to explore Machine Learning (ML), so after having done a couple of courses here and there, I decided to do a -rather simple- starting project, where I could deal with some of the basic stages of the ML: Get the data, prepare it, choose a model, train it, evaluate it, export it, and make the predictions available for use. For this first project, I chose:

In March 2018 Java 10 was released. But a lot of projects haven't adopted even Java 9. I hope this article will help you figure out whether you should try recent releases or stay with current.