Hi everyone:
Should I file an enhancement feature for this or has this been integrated?
Michael.
Michael Hast wrote:
> 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?
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