Convert Date to String in groovy

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat

long lTime = new Date().time

String formattedDate = getUTCDateString(lTime)
println formattedDate

def getUTCDateString(long lTime)
{
Date lDate = new Date(lTime)
def cal = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone('UTC'))
cal.set(lDate[Calendar.YEAR],lDate[Calendar.MONTH],lDate[Calendar.DATE],lDate[Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY],lDate[Calendar.MINUTE],lDate[Calendar.SECOND])
String formattedDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm").format(cal.time);
return formattedDate
}

Converting String to Date in Groovy

Recently I was looking for a simple way to convert a String object to a Date format in groovy..
below is the example.

In groovy, its just a one liner to make this happen

String timeStampStr = "2009-12-01T12:36:22Z"
def strDate = new Date().parse("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'",timeStampStr)
println strDate.