Mocking time in Java 8's java.time API

The closest thing is the Clock object. You can create a Clock object using any time you want (or from the System current time). All date.time objects have overloaded now methods that take a clock object instead for the current time. So you can use dependency injection to inject a Clock with a specific time:

public class MyBean {
    private Clock clock;  // dependency inject
    ...
    public void process(LocalDate eventDate) {
      if (eventDate.isBefore(LocalDate.now(clock)) {
        ...
      }
    }
  }

See Clock JavaDoc for more details

I used a new class to hide the Clock.fixed creation and simplify the tests:

public class TimeMachine {

    private static Clock clock = Clock.systemDefaultZone();
    private static ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.systemDefault();

    public static LocalDateTime now() {
        return LocalDateTime.now(getClock());
    }

    public static void useFixedClockAt(LocalDateTime date){
        clock = Clock.fixed(date.atZone(zoneId).toInstant(), zoneId);
    }

    public static void useSystemDefaultZoneClock(){
        clock = Clock.systemDefaultZone();
    }

    private static Clock getClock() {
        return clock ;
    }
}

public class MyClass {

    public void doSomethingWithTime() {
        LocalDateTime now = TimeMachine.now();
        ...
    }
}

@Test
public void test() {
    LocalDateTime twoWeeksAgo = LocalDateTime.now().minusWeeks(2);

    MyClass myClass = new MyClass();

    TimeMachine.useFixedClockAt(twoWeeksAgo);
    myClass.doSomethingWithTime();

    TimeMachine.useSystemDefaultZoneClock();
    myClass.doSomethingWithTime();

    ...
}

I used a field

private Clock clock;

and then

LocalDate.now(clock);

in my production code. Then I used Mockito in my unit tests to mock the Clock using Clock.fixed():

@Mock
private Clock clock;
private Clock fixedClock;

Mocking:

fixedClock = Clock.fixed(Instant.now(), ZoneId.systemDefault());
doReturn(fixedClock.instant()).when(clock).instant();
doReturn(fixedClock.getZone()).when(clock).getZone();

Assertion:

assertThat(expectedLocalDateTime, is(LocalDate.now(fixedClock)));