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Asked: 2026-05-23T18:27:56+00:00

So why does this work: requestInstance.needByDate = new Date() + 4 requestInstance.needByDate.clearTime() But this

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So why does this work:

requestInstance.needByDate = new Date() + 4
requestInstance.needByDate.clearTime()

But this doesn’t ?

requestInstance.needByDate= (new Date() + 4).clearTime()

EDIT: as indicated below by Tim this is a bug in Groovy version: 1.7.9-SNAPSHOT (the one I am using of course)

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  1. Editorial Team

    I can’t get it to not work…

    needByDate = new Date() + 4
needByDate.clearTime()
println needByDate

needByDate = (new Date() + 4).clearTime()
println needByDate

    Run with Groovy 1.8 prints:

    Fri Jul 22 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Fri Jul 22 00:00:00 UTC 2011

    What version of Groovy are you running? Maybe a previous version did not have clearTime returning a Date?

    Edit

    Yeah, found it. There was a bug reported that clearTime() should return a Date and it was fixed in Groovy 1.8.0 and 1.7.11

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