How to convert from Instant to LocalDate
Java 9+
LocalDate.ofInstant(...)
arrived in Java 9.
Instant instant = Instant.parse("2020-01-23T00:00:00Z");
ZoneId zone = ZoneId.of("America/Edmonton");
LocalDate date = LocalDate.ofInstant(instant, zone);
See code run live at IdeOne.com.
Notice the date is 22nd rather than 23rd as that time zone uses an offset several hours before UTC.
2020-01-22
Java 8
If you are using Java 8, then you could use ZonedDateTime
's toLocalDate()
method:
yourInstant.atZone(yourZoneId).toLocalDate()
Other answers provided the mechanics for the transformation, but I wanted to add some background on the meaning of such transformation which hopefully helps explain why it works the way it works.
LocalDate
and Instant
seem similar – they both hold date(/time) information without the time zone information. However, they have quite a different meaning.
Instant
represents a point in time unambiguously. The representation does not explicitly contain any time zone, but implicitly it refers to the UTC time line.
LocalDateTime
(and LocalDate
) is ambiguous, because it represents a point in the local timeline, which implicitly refers to the local time zone.
So, in order to correctly transform an Instant
into a LocalDateTime
(conceptually – some of these steps are bundled together into a single operation in the implementation) you need to:
1. convert the Instant
into a ZonedDateTime
by applying the UTC time zone info
2. change the time zone from UTC to the local time zone (which implies applying the relevant time zone offset) which gives you another ZonedDateTime
(with different time zone)
3. convert the ZonedDateTime
into a LocalDateTime
which makes the time zone implicit (local) by removing the time zone info.
Finally, you can drop the time-part of LocalDateTime
and end up with the LocalDate
.