# Package groovy.time

Classes for easily manipulating Dates and times.

See: Description

Class Summary
BaseDuration: Base class for date and time durations.
BaseDuration.From
DatumDependentDuration: DatumDependentDuration represents durations whose length in milliseconds cannot be determined without knowing the datum point.
Duration: Duration represents time periods which have values independent of the context.

TimeCategory

Apply a number of methods to allow convenient Date/Time manipulation,such as:

     use (groovy.time.TimeCategory) {
         // application on numbers:
         println 1.minute.from.now
         println 10.hours.ago

         // application on dates
         def someDate = new Date()
         println someDate - 3.months
     }

TimeDatumDependentDuration: TimeDatumDuration represents a time period which results from an arithmetic operation between a TimeDuration object and a DatumDuration object
TimeDuration: TimeDuration represents time periods expressed in units of hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds.

## Package groovy.time Description

Classes for easily manipulating Dates and times. While `java.util.Date` has GDK methods for adding or subtracting days, this is not so useful for different durations of time. `TimeCategory` creates a simple internal DSL for manipulating dates and times in a clean and precise fashion.

### Examples

      use ( TimeCategory ) {
            // application on numbers:
            println 1.minute.from.now
            println 10.days.ago

            // application on dates
            def someDate = new Date()
            println someDate - 3.months
      }

See Also:
  `TimeCategory`