How about:
<fmt:formatDate value="${now}" var="year" pattern="yyyy"/>
<fmt:formatDate value="${now}" var="month" pattern="MM"/>
<fmt:formatDate value="${now}" var="day" pattern="dd"/>
Adjust for whatever patterns work for you. ;-)
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Martin Cooper
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:57:24 -0500, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing an HTML page (from JSP/JSTL) which provides two select boxes
> for day/month/year for a temporal query.
>
> What I would like to do is set the 2nd select box with today's
> day/month/year values. I am able to get today's date from:
>
> <jsp:useBean id="now" class="java.util.Date" />
> Date: <fmt:formatDate value="${now}" dateStyle="full" />
>
> How can I isolate the day/month/year values into seperate variables, so
> that I can use them when looping over to create my select box
> (basically, when the select box value equals today's day/month/year, add
> "SELECTED".
>
> Cheers
>
> ..Tom
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