How to get today's date in Groovy

Question

I am trying to get today's date in format of yyyyMMdd in groovy language.

I have tried to do this:

String oldDate = '20150702'
Date date = Date.parse( 'yyyyMMdd', oldDate )
String currentDate = date.format( 'yyyyMMdd' )

Output: 20150702

I am trying to get today's date however.

Answer 1

The answer of @Opal did not work for me: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: java.util.Date.format() is applicable for argument types: (String) values: [yyyy-MM-dd]

Here is a solution that worked for me:

new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(new Date())

(edit: removed extra parenth at the end of snippet)

Answer 2

Then use:

new Date().format( 'yyyyMMdd' )