> Some words and phrases, such as "4 pm local time", require some of their semantic meaning to be inferred from context. This doesn't mean that they are meaning

> Some words and phrases, such as "4 pm local time", require some of their semantic meaning to be inferred from context. This doesn't mean that they are meaningless. It means that the relevant context must be provided in order to interpret the phrase. This is not what the proposed LocalDateTime would do. This is a “naive” time, and those are only really useful for calendar math or when you want to apply a concrete timezone.