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= Ticking Clock Fixture
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The `TickingClockFixture` is a pre-built fixture script that resets the date/time returned by the xref:../rgsvc/rgsvc.adoc#_rgsvc_core-domain-api_ClockService[`ClockService`] to a known value.

Thereafter the time returned continues to tick forward (as would the real clock) until reset once more.

For example, to set the clock to return "3 Sept 2014", use:

[source,java]
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executionContext.executeChild(this, new TickingClockFixture().setTo("2014-09-03"));
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A variety of format strings are supported; the format "YYYY-MM-DD" (as shown above) will work in every locale.

The fixture script requires that a `TickingFixtureClock` is initialized during bootstrapping.
This is done automatically in `HeadlessWithBootstrappingAbstract` (the superclass of `IntegrationTestAbstract3` and for BDD bootstrapping classes).

