Date/Calendar operations

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-3
  • Fix Version/s: 1.1-rc-3
  • Component/s: groovy-jdk
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Description

Increment/Decrement operations and ranges on dates, should allow for units other than hours.

counter = date.byWeek()
counter += 10

today.step(nextWeek, Calendar.HOUR, 5)

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Guillaume Laforge added a comment -

Some new ideas on this front, triggered by a similar support in Ruby on Rails.
We could create a "duration" notion that could be used on numbers and allow arithmetic with those durations.

def date = new Date()
date + 3.weeks + 1.day + 2.jours + 5.minutes

3.hours.fromNow
2.days.ago

Thread.startIn( 5.minutes ) { ... }

Timer.every( 45.seconds ) { ... }

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Guillaume Laforge added a comment - Some new ideas on this front, triggered by a similar support in Ruby on Rails. We could create a "duration" notion that could be used on numbers and allow arithmetic with those durations. def date = new Date() date + 3.weeks + 1.day + 2.jours + 5.minutes 3.hours.fromNow 2.days.ago Thread.startIn( 5.minutes ) { ... } Timer.every( 45.seconds ) { ... }
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Stephen Colebourne added a comment -

Time is a complex domain area. So, could I suggest that the Date and Calendar classes are so poor, slow, and unreliable that you should really think about using the complete rewrite that is Joda-Time - http://joda-time.sourceforge.net.

Stephen Colebourne
Project lead - Joda-Time

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Stephen Colebourne added a comment - Time is a complex domain area. So, could I suggest that the Date and Calendar classes are so poor, slow, and unreliable that you should really think about using the complete rewrite that is Joda-Time - http://joda-time.sourceforge.net. Stephen Colebourne Project lead - Joda-Time
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Guillaume Laforge added a comment -

The issue might be updated a little to reflect the work you've done on date/time support.

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Guillaume Laforge added a comment - The issue might be updated a little to reflect the work you've done on date/time support.
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Guillaume Laforge added a comment -

See the date and time category.

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Guillaume Laforge added a comment - See the date and time category.
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Jörg Gottschling added a comment -

+1 on Stephens suggestion; use joda time!

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Jörg Gottschling added a comment - +1 on Stephens suggestion; use joda time!
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Guillaume Laforge added a comment -

There's already some additional Data / Time support in Groovy if you use the Date / Time categories:

http://groovy.codehaus.org/JN0545-Dates

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Guillaume Laforge added a comment - There's already some additional Data / Time support in Groovy if you use the Date / Time categories: http://groovy.codehaus.org/JN0545-Dates

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  • Assignee:
    John Wilson
    Reporter:
    Yuri Schimke
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