adding hours to the present date with groovy

[MD01]

Hi Following is my code to add days to the present date, How can i add hours to the present date instead of days 

def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils(context)
def today = new Date()
def laterDate = today + 29 // adding 29 days
def dda = laterDate.format("yyyy-MM-dd 17:00:00")
log.info dda
assert json.expirationDate == dda

[nmrao · Accepted solution]

@MD01,

Here your go:

Looks like this is your question in Stackoverflow which happened to answer there already.

It would be easy if you use time category as shown below. 

use(groovy.time.TimeCategory) {
    def halfHourFromNow = new Date() + 2.hour 
    log.info halfHourFromNow.format("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
}

You can quickly check it online demo