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Konrad Windszus commented on SLING-6102: ---------------------------------------- It would be nice to also support the new date types/formatters being added with java 8: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/jf14-date-time-2125367.html Also the correct locale should be considered when formatting dates (with a possibility to overwrite that). > Adding formatter to HTL/Sightly dates > ------------------------------------- > > Key: SLING-6102 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-6102 > Project: Sling > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Scripting > Reporter: Feike Visser > > When using Sightly we are missing functionality to format dates. > Proposed solution: > {code} > @ dateFormat = '<date format>' > {code} > format used can be found in : > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html > The value to be formatted must be specified via a Date-type (Date,Calendar > etc) > Example > {code} > <body data-sly-use.obj="logic.js" data-sly-use.dateV="java.util.Date"> > ${ dateV @ dateFormat='dd/MM/yyyy'} > ${ obj.jsdate @ dateFormat='dd/MM/yyyy'} > ${ properties.jcr:created @ dateFormat='dd/MM/yyyy' } > </body> > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)