# Package groovy.time

package groovy.time

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`

- Classes
  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.