Current date (mm/dd/yyyy)

[ted bishop]

I'm trying to get the current date in format mm/dd/yyyy. Using the code below I'm getting the date with a 2 digit year and no leading zeros (4/1/11).

<groovy>
def dateTime = new Date()
def date = dateTime.getDateString()
step.setWebtestProperty('send.date', date)
</groovy>

Thanks,
Ted

[Brian Mooney]

ted bishop wrote:I'm trying to get the current date in format mm/dd/yyyy. Using the code below I'm getting the date with a 2 digit year and no leading zeros (4/1/11).

<groovy>
def dateTime = new Date()
def date = dateTime.getDateString()
step.setWebtestProperty('send.date', date)
</groovy>

Thanks,
Ted

Hey,

You should be able to use the SimpleDateFormat class from java. Not sure if there's a more Groovylicious way to do things but there's not much code involved in that.
You can read up about the SimpleDateFormat class though its API documentation SimpleDateFormat

Should be as simple as defining you're required date format and then formating the Date object to return the required string.

Amn't familiar with the setWebTestProperty method from the step class?
But the below seems to run ok from the groovy cmd line groovysh.

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat

def date = new Date()
sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy")
println sdf.format(date)

Prints out as:

04/06/2011

[ted bishop]

Brian,

Thanks for your reply. I got it to work using your example.

Thanks,
Ted

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Brian Mooney wrote: Not sure if there's a more Groovylicious way to do things but there's not much code involved in that.

Actually yes. Groovy provides a wrapper to SimpleDateFormat. It's only one line less than your Java version though.

import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.*;

class Run{
	static void main(def args){		
		def dateTime = new Date()
		println DateGroovyMethods.format(dateTime, 'MM/dd/yyyy')
			
	}
}