Grails - Compare Groovy Date Time if less than 10 minutes

Question

I want to compare two dates if the difference between them is less than 10 minutes. How do I do that?

Date created = Date.parse('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss','2014-06-05 10:19:04')

Date now = new Date()

now.compareTo(created) gives me 1 but I want to compare the minute difference.

Answer 1

Try using java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit . I'm assuming that, Groovy Date.parse creates java.util.Date , though.

def difference = now.time - created.time
if (difference < TimeUnit.MINUTES.toMillis(10)) {
    //do something
}