There was a discussion on the list previously on formatting a date object. It would be better to format the date at the business layer rather than at the presentation layer. This is because if the view layer is changed to use Swing or another web app framework, the date is already formatted to the requirements of the application.
Amin -----Original Message----- From: Ripudaman.Sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 9:02 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: <bean:write property=""> Format a Date ? Inspite of using substring.You can use SimpleDateFormat class which provide you the facility of format date to any any Date Format .For Your refrence sending code which is generic one and convert any DateFormat- How to convert date from "2002-11-29" to "29/11/2002" (Or from any format to any format. they can be passed as params.) public static String convertDate(String date, String fromPattern, String toPattern) { String newFormat = null; try { SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat(fromPattern); Date objDt = fmt.parse(date); fmt.applyPattern(toPattern); newFormat = fmt.format(objDt); }catch(ParseException pe) {} return newFormat; } String newFormat = convertDate("2002-11-29", "yyyy-MM-dd", "dd/MM/yyyy"); System.out.println(newFormat); //will print 29/11/2002 Regard Ripudaman Sharma Analyst Indus Software --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
