Duration between two dates in Groovy

Question

Is there a way in Groovy to get the duration between two Date objects? The duration format I'm looking for would be something like: 2 days, 10 hours, 30 minutes...

Thanks

Answer 1

TimeCategory has some methods for getting a duration. You could use it like

use(groovy.time.TimeCategory) {     def duration = date1 - date2     print "Days: ${duration.days}, Hours: ${duration.hours}, etc." } 

Answer 2

The use()-Syntax is weird to me. so I prefer it like this:

def duration = groovy.time.TimeCategory.minus(   new Date(),   new Date(session.creationTime) ); def values = [             "seconds: " + duration.seconds,             "min: " + duration.minutes,             "hours: " + duration.hours,             "days: " + duration.days,             "ago: " + duration.ago, ];