I see, so there was no "date" in the eogen template context. Ok, as far
as I can tell from the Velocity documentation, I would suggest to use
the Velocity DateTool object to format dates. They suggest to use $date
as the variable.
Example of formatting the "current" date:
$date -> Oct 19, 2003 9:54:50 PM
$date.long -> October 19, 2003 9:54:50 PM PDT
$date.medium_time -> 9:54:50 PM
$date.full_date -> Sunday, October 19, 2003
$date.get('default','short') -> Oct 19, 2003 9:54 PM
$date.get('yyyy-M-d H:m:s') -> 2003-10-19 21:54:50
Links I found for DateTool:
http://www.jajakarta.org/velocity/tools/velocity-tools-1.1/docs/generic/DateTool.html
http://velocity.apache.org/tools/releases/1.3/javadoc/org/apache/velocity/tools/generic/DateTool.html
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Velocity/HowtouseDateinVelocity.htm
Michael.
Mike Schrag wrote:
> I have committed a new "date" (new Date()) and "calendar"
> (Calendar.getInstance()) binding into the eogen template context. Not
> sure how to format that in velocity, though.
>
> ms
>
> On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Michael Hast wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> The old EOGenerator templates had the ability of displaying date
>> information in different formats, e.g. "<$date %a %b %d %Y$>" or
>> "<$date %Y$>" just for the year. How would I do that in the new
>> Velocity templates? It seems that the context needs to have a date
>> variable passed in. Is that something that can be done?
>>
>> Michael.
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