A date without a time-zone _in the ISO-8601 calendar system, such as {@code 2007-12-03}. !(p) {@code LocalDate} is an immutable date-time object that represents a date, often viewed as year-month-day. Other date fields, such as day-of-year, day-of-week and week-of-year, can also be accessed. For example, the value "2nd October 2007" can be stored _in a {@code LocalDate}. !(p) This class does not store or represent a time or time-zone. Instead, it is a description of the date, as used for birthdays. It cannot represent an instant on the time-line without additional information such as an offset or time-zone. !(p) The ISO-8601 calendar system is the modern civil calendar system used today _in most of the world. It is equivalent to the proleptic Gregorian calendar system, _in which today's rules for leap years are applied for all time. For most applications written today, the ISO-8601 rules are entirely suitable. However, any application that makes use of historical dates, and requires them to be accurate will find the ISO-8601 approach unsuitable.