This document provides an overview of key date and time classes in Java, including java.util.Date, java.sql.Date, java.util.Calendar, java.util.TimeZone, java.text.DateFormat, and Joda-Time. It describes what each class represents, how to initialize them, common methods like formatting/parsing dates, and comparisons. It also notes that Calendar and TimeZone are preferable to the deprecated methods in Date, and that SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe so a synchronized wrapper is recommended.