joda

Joda is a name that refers to more than one subject. The most prominent use is Joda, a town in the Indian state of Odisha in eastern India. It developed as a mining town and is associated with regional mining activity, particularly iron ore and coal. The town functions as a local hub for workers and service providers connected with the mining economy and is connected to regional transportation networks by road and rail.

In technology, Joda commonly appears in reference to Joda-Time, a date and time library for the Java platform. Joda-Time provides a modern API for handling dates, times, time zones, durations, and intervals, offering a more intuitive approach than the older Java date-time classes. It was widely adopted in Java applications before Java 8 introduced the java.time package, and its design influenced later time APIs. The library is maintained by the Joda project and has been used in numerous software projects to simplify date and time manipulation.

The term Joda may also appear as a place name or surname in other contexts, but the Odisha town and the Joda-Time library are the best-known uses.