# Package groovy.time

Classes for easily manipulating Dates and times.

See: Description

- Class Summary
  Class | Description
  --- | ---
  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:
  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`