[GROOVY-3374] Add clearTime() to java.util.Date and/or java.util.Calendar

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.8, 1.7.1, 1.8-beta-1
• Component/s: groovy-jdk
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Guillaume Sauthier
• Reporter: David Reines
• Created: 23/Feb/09 10:27
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:44
• Resolved: 31/Dec/09 06:49

Description

It'd be nice to have a convenience method that clears the time portion of a java.util.Date and/or java.util.Calendar. There are numerous use cases where it makes sense to compare month/day/year only portions of a calendar or date. Essentially, it would perform the following on Calendar:

void clearTime() {
        clear(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)
        clear(Calendar.HOUR)
        clear(Calendar.MINUTE)
        clear(Calendar.SECOND)
        clear(Calendar.MILLISECOND) 
}

Similar functionality would be nice on Date.