I am looking to add functionality onto

OffsetDateTime

where I’d be able to do something like

OffsetDateTime.todayAtMidnight

to get the time for today at midnight. If I could do an extension static function on that class then my problem would be solved but alas I don’t think you can do that. Would the best option be to just use the factory pattern and have a

OffsetDateTimeFactory

that’s just a collection of ways to create

OffsetDateTime

instances for specific cases?

You could just make a top level function called

todayAtMidnight()

that just returns what you’re looking for.

fun todayAtMidnight() = OffsetDateTime.now().withHour(0).withMinute(0).withSecond(0)

Oof, I seem to forget about top level functions. That seems like another good option, I’ll check with my team to see which they prefer, thank you!