[GROOVY-4971] DateGroovyMethods should have the method format(java.util.Date, String, TimeZone)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.10
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.3, 1.9-beta-4
• Component/s: groovy-jdk
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Alexander Veit
• Created: 11/Aug/11 14:30
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:43
• Resolved: 15/Sep/11 06:52

Description

Currently there is no simple way to format a Date object within a time zone other that the system time zone.

A possible implementation would be

public static String format(Calendar self, String pattern, TimeZone tz) {
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
sdf.setTimeZone(tz);
return sdf.format(self);
}