Here are the tags in the DateTime taglib: * currentTime Gets the current time in milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970 GMT. * format Formats a date in milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970 GMT for output as a date string. * parse Parses a date string and outputs the time in milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970 GMT. * timeZone Create a time zone script variable for use with the parse or format tags.
* timeZones Loop through all time zones. * months Loop through the months of the year. * weekdays Loop through the days of the week. * amPms Loop through the am/pm names. * eras Loop through the era names. ----- Of the first batch; format and parse are taken of care of in JSTL with fmt:formatDate and fmt:parseDate. The currentTime tag is effectively handled by doing: <jsp:useBean id="now" class="java.util.Date" /> I'm never sure whether it's better to educate people in doing such things, or if there should be a: <un:currentTime var="now"/> Probably it's best to just push towards useBean. Also, the timeZone attribute to the two fmt: tags can take a String as well as an Object, so presumably that makes that one redundant. So the question becomes whether there is any value in the iterator style tags. I don't see a lot. Any thoughts? I'm tempted to think 'deprecate' for datetime and bring nothing into Unstandard. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
