Date - A concrete date type formatted as YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm, enclosed in quotes when used.

Define Date: DateTime dateTime = "<YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm>"

Example:

DateTime dateTime = "2019-01-01 12:00"

DateTime type methods:

• DateTime.now(): Gets the current year, month, day, hour and minute Example:

DateTime d = DateTime.now()

• dateTime.withYear(<Integer year>): Sets the year of the date and returns a new date Return type: DateTime

Example:

dateTime.withYear(2018) //Returns: 2018-01-01 12:00

• dateTime.withMonth(<Integer month>): Sets the month of the date and returns a new date Return type: DateTime

Example:

dateTime.withMonth(12) //Returns: 2019-12-01 12:00

• dateTime.withDay(<Integer day>): Sets the day of the date and returns a new date Return type: DateTime

Example:

dateTime.withDay(30) //Returns: 2019-01-30 12:00

• dateTime.withHour(<Integer hour>): Sets the hour of the date and returns a new date Return type: DateTime

Example:

dateTime.withHour(13) //Returns: 2019-01-01 13:00

• dateTime.withMinute(<Integer day>): Sets the minute of the date and returns a new date Return type: DateTime

Example:

dateTime.withMinute(30) //Returns: 2019-01-01 12:30

• dateTime.toTimestamp(): Converts date to timestamp Return type: Long

Example:

dateTime.toTimestamp() //Returns: 1568001600000

• dateTime.year: Gets the year from the date Example:

dateTime.year //Returns: 2019

• dateTime.month: Gets the month from the date Example:

dateTime.month //Returns: 1

• dateTime.day: Gets the day from the date Example:

dateTime.day //Returns: 1

• dateTime.hour: Gets the hour from the date Example:

dateTime.hour //Returns: 12

• dateTime.minute: Gets the minute from the date Example:

dateTime.minute //Returns: 0

• dateTime.dayOfWeek: Gets the day of week for current date Example:

dateTime.dayOfWeek //Returns: 1(Monday)

• dateTime.weekOfYear: Gets the week number of year for current date Example:

dateTime.weekOfYear //Returns: 1(First week of year)

• dateTime.weekOfMonth: Gets the week number of month for current date Example:

dateTime.weekOfMonth //Returns: 1(First week of month)

• dateTime.toDate: Converts DateTime to Date Example:

DateTime dateTime = "2019-01-01 12:00"
Date date = dateTime.toDate()

log.info(date)

• DateTime.of(Long timestamp): Converts timestamp to DateTime

Long timestamp = 1618972431890

DateTime d1 = DateTime.of(timestamp)

• DateTime.of(<String a>): Converts string to date Example:

String b = "2020-01-01 00:00"
DateTime dateTime = DateTime.of(b)
log.info("dateTime"+ dateTime)