Groovy Goodness: Parse Date.toString() Value
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Join For FreeWith Groovy 1.8.4 we can parse the output of the Date.toString() method back to a Date. For example we get the string value of a Date from an external source and want to parse it to a Date object. The format of the string must have the pattern "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy" with the US Locale. This is used by the toString() method of the Date class.
import static java.util.Calendar.* // Create date 10 November 2011. def cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone('Europe/Amsterdam')) def date = cal.time date.clearTime() date[YEAR] = 2011 date[MONTH] = NOVEMBER date[DATE] = 10 // Get toString() value. def dateToString = date.toString() assert dateToString == 'Thu Nov 10 00:00:00 CET 2011' // Replace Nov for Dec in string and 10 for 24. dateString = dateToString.replace('Nov', 'Dec').replace('10', '24') // Use parseToStringDate to get new Date. def newDate = Date.parseToStringDate(dateString) assert newDate[MONTH] == DECEMBER assert newDate[DATE] == 24 assert newDate[YEAR] == 2011
From http://mrhaki.blogspot.com/2011/11/groovy-goodness-parse-datetostring.html
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