you could try looking at the datetime taglib on Jakarta to see if this answers your problem
__________________________________ Steve Earl InfoGain Limited, 23-25 Marlow Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7AA, UK email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0)1628 580 600 Fax: +44 (0)1628 580 610 Mobile: +44 (0)779 026 3645 Disclaimer: Neither this e-mail nor any attachment places any legal or contractual obligations on InfoGain Limited. Any reproduction, disclosure or dissemination beyond the intended addressees is strictly prohibited save for the legitimate business purposes of InfoGain Limited and its clients or partners. __________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Jon Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:07 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Displaying Short Dates in a Text Box I haven't seen one.. however I've built in a simple set/get formatter at my ActionForm level which solves the problem quite nicely. It's dead simple using only DateFormat and doing the conversion to String on the fly. However, if there is a better way.. I'd like to know as well. Cheers. Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a form that displays a date value. It always shows up in the medium > date format. Is there a way to specify in the <html:text> tag to display a > short date in the proper locale? I have tried formatting the getDateXXXX() > method to return the proper date format, but it is not working. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>