The use of the ``++ZonedDateTime++`` class introduced in Java 8 to truncate a date can be significantly faster than the ``++DateUtils++`` class from Commons Lang. *Note* that this rule is automatically disabled when the project's ``++sonar.java.source++`` is lower than ``++8++``. == Noncompliant Code Example ---- public Date trunc(Date date) { return DateUtils.truncate(date, Calendar.SECOND); // Noncompliant } ---- == Compliant Solution ---- public Date trunc(Date date) { Instant instant = date.toInstant(); ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = instant.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()); ZonedDateTime truncatedZonedDateTime = zonedDateTime.truncatedTo(ChronoUnit.SECONDS); Instant truncatedInstant = truncatedZonedDateTime.toInstant(); return Date.from(truncatedInstant); } ---- ifdef::env-github,rspecator-view[] ''' == Implementation Specification (visible only on this page) include::message.adoc[] endif::env-github,rspecator-view[]