# Package groovy.time

## 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. groovy.time.TimeCategory creates a simple internal DSL for manipulating dates and times in a clean and precise fashion.

- Class Summary
  Class | Description
  --- | ---
  BaseDuration | Base class for date and time durations.
  BaseDuration.From | Helper for computing dates relative to the current time.
  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
  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.