Convert and format a Date in JSP

Question

From my JSP Page  I am getting Date in this format      Fri May 13 2011 19 59 09 GMT 0530  India Standard Time        How can I convert this to the pattern yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss

User · Answer

The example above showing the import with ...sun.com/jsp/jstl/format is incorrect (meaning it didn't work for me).

Instead try the below -this import statement is valid

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %><%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core-rt" prefix="c-rt" %><%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt" %>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Format Date</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <c-rt:set var="now" value="<%=new java.util.Date()%>" />

    <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
    style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111"
    width="63%" id="AutoNumber2">
      <tr>
        <td width="100%" colspan="2" bgcolor="#0000FF">
          <p align="center">
            <b>
              <font color="#FFFFFF" size="4">Formatting: 
              <fmt:formatDate value="${now}" type="both"
              timeStyle="long" dateStyle="long" />
              </font>
            </b>
          </p>
        </td>
      </tr>

User · Answer

lt    page language  java  contentType  text html  charset UTF-8   pageEncoding  UTF-8   gt    lt  DOCTYPE html gt    lt html dir  ltr  lang  en-US  gt    lt head gt    lt meta charset  UTF-8    gt     lt title gt JSP with the current date lt  title gt     lt  head gt    lt body gt    lt  java text DateFormat df   new java text SimpleDateFormat  dd MM yyyy      gt   lt h1 gt Current Date   lt    df format new java util Date      gt   lt  h1 gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt    Output  Current Date  10 03 2010

User · Answer

Date td   new Date    String b   new String      SimpleDateFormat format   new SimpleDateFormat  YYYY MM dd    b   format format td   out println b

User · Answer

You can do that using the SimpleDateFormat class   SimpleDateFormat formatter new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss     String dates formatter format mydate     mydate is your date object

User · Answer

lt   page import  java text SimpleDateFormat   gt   lt   page import  java util Date   gt   lt   page import  java util Locale   gt    lt html gt   lt head gt   lt title gt Date Format lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt   lt   String stringDate    Fri May 13 2011 19 59 09 GMT 0530   Date stringDate1   new SimpleDateFormat  EEE MMM dd yyyy HH mm ss Z   Locale ENGLISH  parse stringDate   String stringDate2   new SimpleDateFormat  yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss   format stringDate1    out println stringDate2     gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt

User · Answer

In JSP  you d normally like to use JSTL  lt fmt formatDate gt  for this  You can of course also throw in a scriptlet with SimpleDateFormat  but scriptlets are strongly discouraged since 2003   Assuming that   bean date  returns java util Date  here s how you can use it    lt    taglib prefix  fmt  uri  http   java sun com jsp jstl fmt    gt       lt fmt formatDate value    bean date   pattern  yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss    gt    If you re actually using a java util Calendar  then you can invoke its getTime   method to get a java util Date out of it that  lt fmt formatDate gt  accepts    lt fmt formatDate value    bean calendar time   pattern  yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss    gt    Or  if you re actually holding the date in a java lang String  this indicates a serious design mistake in the model  you should really fix your model to store dates as java util Date instead of as java lang String    here s how you can convert from one date string format e g  MM dd yyyy to another date string format e g  yyyy-MM-dd with help of JSTL  lt fmt parseDate gt     lt fmt parseDate pattern  MM dd yyyy  value    bean dateString   var  parsedDate    gt   lt fmt formatDate value    parsedDate   pattern  yyyy-MM-dd    gt

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