Hey Riaan, Try fiddling around with setting the locale in JSTL. In your example code you create a SimpleDateFormat with a pattern as argument. JSTL uses the constructor with a Locale as additional parameter.
Grtz, Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: Riaan Oberholzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: woensdag 25 februari 2004 8:18 > To: Tag Libraries Users List > Subject: RE: JSTL <fmt:formatDate bug ??? > > > > Could you post the code to manually format the date? > > I can easily compare that to what is being done by > > the JSTL implementation and give you some feedback > > on that. > > Something to the extend of: > > static > { > SimpleDateFormatter sdf = new > SimpleDateFormatter("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"); > sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"); > } > > user inputs time in above format in jsp, then I do: > > sdf.parseDate(inputtedDate) and do a getTime and then > create a java.sql.Timestamp with the long value and > put that in the DB. Mysql displays is as one hour > later, the Dutch time, which is expected. > > When displaying it manually, I use the same sdf above > and do something like: > > sdf.formatDate(new Date(resultSet.getTimestamp("time").getTime())). > > Not 100% sure, as I do not have the code with me, but > somthing to this extend. The sdf is a static in a > singleton utility class. > > And, as I said, it only gets messed up after DST kicks > in. Maybe "Europe/London" is somehow (wrongly) > interpreted as GMT? > > > PS Thanks for hosting your application in our fine > > little country:) > > I live here, but I'm not Dutch. :) > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
