The document discusses working with dates and times in Java. It covers the Date class, Calendar class, formatting dates, parsing strings into dates, and performing date/time operations and comparisons. The Date class represents a specific instant in time and provides methods for getting dates, comparing dates, and formatting dates. The Calendar class provides methods for converting between dates and calendar fields like month, day, year, and manipulating calendar fields. Formatting dates can be done using SimpleDateFormat, printf, or other methods.