One of the crown jewels of Hutool 2.6 was the Convert class. It allowed developers to convert between nearly any data type without worrying about parsing exceptions until absolutely necessary.
Even though it's outdated, Hutool 2.6 is still useful in certain niche scenarios: hutool 26
// New way in Hutool 26 LocalDateTime ldt = LocalDateTimeUtil.parse("2026-05-02", "yyyy-MM-dd"); LocalDateTime beginOfDay = LocalDateTimeUtil.beginOfDay(ldt); Duration duration = LocalDateTimeUtil.between(ldt, LocalDateTime.now()); One of the crown jewels of Hutool 2