Question

For the effective date support, we need the ability to change the ‘current date’ to be a future date without changing a server clock in a test environment

give me an ideas to implement this functionality.

Answer 1

I assume you are using some similar mechanism to this to get your current time:

GregorianCalendar now = new GregorianCalendar();

To set a time you wish:

GregorianCalendar later = new GregorianCalendar();
later.set(Calendar.DAY, 23);
later.set(Calendar.HOUR, 2);

Hope this helps.

You should look at Joda Time API for all your date and time requirements. 🙂