Question

Using the grails datepicker control, is there a way to have it save time precision, but only show the user up to the day? The user only cares about that day, but I need to add the time of day that entry was persisted into the db.

Answer 1

From what I know, datepicker doesnt save precision and sets some default values on the fields that are ommited.

If you need to persist the time of day entry was persisted, you can use dateCreated lastUpdated which will be automatically set when object will be persisted for the first time (dateCreated) or every time object will be modified (lastUpdated).

class Message {

    ...

    Date dateCreated
    Date lastUpdated

}