Groovy Timestamp

There's small changes you make when developing that you often disregard as too simple to matter. One such example is shown below.

def tstamp = new Date().format('yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss')

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Dates should be ordered: YEAR, MONTH, DAY. (e.g. YYYYMMDD, YYMMDD, YYYYMM). Time should be ordered: HOUR, MINUTES, SECONDS (HHMMSS). The reason for this is that files will always be sorted in correct chronological order.

As a build manager I use this most in my Gradle scripts for ordering the build output logs.