Yes it is a lot of work.
The commit below focusses on the formatting of various Temporals, so no parsing 
etc.
https://github.com/Jaaap/freemarker/commit/8bf5a91de2c47b191b5d68c7506abfbb350626ab
 
<https://github.com/Jaaap/freemarker/commit/8bf5a91de2c47b191b5d68c7506abfbb350626ab>

Should i make a pull request based on this commit or are there intermediate 
steps to be taken?

regards, Teun

> On 2020-02-12, at 23:50, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> No, you will only needed CLA when your pull request needs to be merged.
> 
> Note that adding Java 8 support will have quite a lot consequences in FM.
> Many parts touched. At least in principle, we should add a lot of new
> TemplateModel subinterfaces... given how many types are there in java.time,
> that will be awkward. And then integrating all that with all the places
> that can now explicitly handle TemplateDateModel, TemplateDateTimeModel,
> and TemplateTimeModel. So, yeah, it's not accidental that nobody has
> invested into this yet. :)
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Daniel Dekany

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