Hi Dan,

It's worth considering creating a simple component for formatting a date 
(possibly just wrapping up the Insert component with a format as mentioned by 
Joel). That can ensure you're using the same format across your site and when 
your sponsors ask for some interesting extension (such as a change in format or 
the ability for users to choose between US-format and UK-format dates) then 
you'll be much happier :-)

While I'm at it, I'll plug one of my favourite open-source projects: 
http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/ which is a fantastically good replacement for 
Java's date and time classes.

Paul




                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                              
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Hi Dan,

If you're using the Tapestry 4 Insert component, there is a 'format'
parameter you can supply. The framework documentation site has an example of
this:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/tapestry/ComponentReference/Insert.html

I have read the SimpleDateFormat class isn't threadsafe, so you might want
to look at FastDateFormat which is part of the Apache Commons-lang library.

Have a good one!

Joel

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