Anil,
Thanks! You're absolutely right about this. When I tried explicitly
converting the Timestamp to a Date, it just printed the date out using
Date.toString(), which is more user-friendly but still can't be
patterned with the formatDate tag.
Adding the statement to set the locale works like a charm.
-emily
Anil Gangolli wrote:
My guess is this is happening because JSTL is not finding the locale
defined and is resorting to the toString() method.
As a simple test, please try this:
(1) Early in the main.jsp (before first use of fmt:formatDate) use
<fmt:setLocale value="en_US"/>
(2) Use <fmt:formatDate value="${post.pubTime}" type="date"
dateStyle="full" pattern="MMMM d, yyyy"/>
n.b.: You may need to clear out Tomcat's work directory for your webapp
(work/Catalina/localhost/<webappname>) to get rid of prior compiled
versions.
You probably need to restart Tomcat to get it to reload the
compile JSP's class.
If this works for you let us know; it means the JSP is not getting the
locale set properly and that would be a bug. I'm not sure if it is in
current versions or not.
--a.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Emily Lynema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:16 PM
Subject: Using jstl <fmt:formatDate> tag
I'm trying to reformat the post date/times that appear on our roller
main page.
I'm still on roller 2.1, so I apologize for being a bit behind. We are
running in Apache Tomcat 5.5.17 with Java 1.5.
Here's the original code in the main.jsp for each 'recent post':
<fmt:formatDate value="${post.pubTime}" type="both" dateStyle="medium"
timeStyle="medium" />
which produces a display like this:
2007-01-05 10:06:54.0
I would like it to display something more like 'January 5, 2007'
without the timestamp. But no matter how I fiddle with the
<fmt:formatDate /> options, I can't get anything to change.
For example, this code:
<fmt:formatDate value="${post.pubTime}" type="date" dateStyle="full" />
continues to produce:
2007-01-05 10:06:54.0
The formatDate tag, as far as I can find, seems to be expecting a
java.util.Date, and the WeblogEntryData.pubTime seems to be a
java.sql.Timestamp, so I'm wondering if there are incompatabilities
there. Any advice would be appreciated!
-emily
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919-513-8031
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Emily Lynema
Systems Librarian for Digital Projects
Information Technology, NCSU Libraries
919-513-8031
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
