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The PostgreSQL™ JDBC driver implements native support for the
[Java 8 Date and Time API](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/jf14-date-time-2125367.html)
(JSR-310) using JDBC 4.2.

<a name="8-date-time-supported-data-types"></a>
**Table 5.1. Supported Java 8 Date and Time classes**

<table summary="Supported data type" class="CALSTABLE" border="1">
  <tr>
    <th>PostgreSQL™</th>
    <th>Java SE 8</th>
  </tr>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>DATE</td>
      <td>LocalDate</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>TIME [ WITHOUT TIME ZONE ]</td>
      <td>LocalTime</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>TIMESTAMP [ WITHOUT TIME ZONE ]</td>
      <td>LocalDateTime</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE</td>
      <td>OffsetDateTime</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

This is closely aligned with tables B-4 and B-5 of the JDBC 4.2 specification.
Note that `ZonedDateTime`, `Instant` and
`OffsetTime / TIME WITH TIME ZONE` are not supported. Also note
that all `OffsetDateTime` instances will have be in UTC (have offset 0).
This is because the backend stores them as UTC.

<a name="reading-example"></a>
**Example 5.2. Reading Java 8 Date and Time values using JDBC**

```java
Statement st = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE columnfoo = 500");
while (rs.next())
{
    System.out.print("Column 1 returned ");
    LocalDate localDate = rs.getObject(1, LocalDate.class));
    System.out.println(localDate);
}
rs.close();
st.close();
```

For other data types simply pass other classes to `#getObject`.
Note that the Java data types needs to match the SQL data types in table 7.1.


<a name="writing-example"></a>
**Example 5.3. Writing Java 8 Date and Time values using JDBC**

```java
LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.now();
PreparedStatement st = conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO mytable (columnfoo) VALUES (?)");
st.setObject(1, localDate);
st.executeUpdate();
st.close();
```