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Current state and introduction:
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On 2019-05-25, the version v5.4 of Time4J has been finished and released. It requires at least Java-8. The older version lines v3.x and v4.x have reached end-of-life with the latest versions v3.50 and v4.38 where v3.x is based on Java 6+7. The previous version lines v1.x and v2.x are no longer recommended (due to several backward incompatibilities) and have reached end-of-life, too. Time4J is organized in modules. The module **time4j-base** is always necessary. Other modules are optional and include:
On 2019-11-04, the version v5.5 of Time4J has been finished and released. It requires at least Java-8. The older version lines v3.x and v4.x have reached end-of-life with the latest versions v3.50 and v4.38 where v3.x is based on Java 6+7. The previous version lines v1.x and v2.x are no longer recommended (due to several backward incompatibilities) and have reached end-of-life, too. Time4J is organized in modules. The module **time4j-base** is always necessary. Other modules are optional and include:

- **time4j-sqlxml** contains a simple adapter for the support of SQL-databases.
- **time4j-tzdata** encapsulates the time zone repository (independent github-project starting with version 5.0-2018f)
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e) **Global versus local**: Time4J rejects the design idea of JSR-310 to separate between "machine time" and "human time". This is considered as artificial. So all four basic types offer both aspects in one. For example a calendar date is simultaneously a human time consisting of several meaningful elements like year, month etc. and also a kind of machine or technical time counter because you can define a single incrementing number represented by julian days. In a similar way a UTC-moment has both a technical counter (the number of SI-seconds since UTC-epoch) AND a human representation visible in its canonical output produced by `toString()`-method (example: 2014-04-21T19:45:30Z). However, Time4J emphasizes the difference between local and global types. Conversion between these types always require a timezone or an offset.

f) **Internationalization**: Time4J defines its own i18n-resources for many languages (**94 languages in version 5.4**) in order to defend its i18n-behaviour against poor or insufficient platform resources (which only serve as fallback). Especially localized formatting of durations is not a supported feature on any platform, so Time4J fills an important gap.
f) **Internationalization**: Time4J defines its own i18n-resources for many languages (**94 languages in version 5.5**) in order to defend its i18n-behaviour against poor or insufficient platform resources (which only serve as fallback). Especially localized formatting of durations is not a supported feature on any platform, so Time4J fills an important gap.

g) **Powerful format engine**: The built-in format engine located in format/expert-package offers overwhelmingly many features, general interfaces for customization and outstanding parsing performance (better than in Joda-Time or JSR-310).

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<dependency>
<groupId>net.time4j</groupId>
<artifactId>time4j-base</artifactId>
<version>5.4</version>
<version>5.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.time4j</groupId>
<artifactId>time4j-sqlxml</artifactId>
<version>5.4</version>
<version>5.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.time4j</groupId>
<artifactId>time4j-tzdata</artifactId>
<version>5.0-2019a</version>
<version>5.0-2019c</version>
</dependency>
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