David Goodenough wrote:
In an early version of JSTL (one prior to proper release) I seem to recall that leaving the value out of a fmt:formatDate tag defaulted to using the value of "now" as the time/date to format. This seems to have vanished from the released version. Firstly why the change, and secondly what is the approved method, preferably without resorting to Java, of formatting the current time. The best I have found is to jsp:useBean with class java.util.Date, which will default to now, and format that.
Thanks in advance
David
Can't remember exactly why it was dropped, but I'm sure there was a good reason :-). We had then added the following text in the spec (Section 9.9) to make sure questions like yours would be answered in the spec itself:
In order to format the current date and time, a <jsp:useBean> action may be used as follows:
<jsp:useBean id="now" class="java.util.Date" />
<fmt:formatDate value="${now}" />-- Pierre
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