Often I found it painful working on dates when I had to find a past/future date based on weeks, months or years.
Groovy class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.TimeCategory has very helpful & intutive syntax for working on dates.
I am sure I need not to explain what each of the following statements will do:
Date date = new Date()
use(org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.TimeCategory) {
date = date - 10.seconds
date = date - 10.minutes
date = date - 10.hours
date = date - 10.days
date = date - 10.weeks
date = date - 10.months
date = date - 10.years
}
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~Aman Aggarwal
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I’ve just picked up groovy and I am impressed. I’m waiting for my Groovy Recipes book to arrive any moment now.
I’ve started playing around groovy within Apache Click framework and I’m amazed how cool web development can be.