RFR: 8247781: Day periods support [v11]

[Roger Riggs]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:07:16 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> Please review the changes for the subject issue. This is to enhance the java.time package to support day periods, such as "in the morning", defined in CLDR. It will add a new pattern character 'B' and its supporting builder method. The motivation and its spec are in this CSR:
>> 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8254629
>> 
>> Naoto
>
> Naoto Sato has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Clarified 24:00 for "midnight" type in the spec. Some clean up.

src/java.base/share/classes/java/time/format/DateTimeFormatterBuilder.java line 1483:

> 1481:      * exception is thrown and the day period is ignored.
> 1482:      * <p>
> 1483:      * "midnight" type allows both "00:00" as the start-of-day and "24:00" as the

Editorial:  Add "The " at the beginning of the sentence.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/938