Bug in HTML Content Layout ?

Question

Dear all,
I'm facing something weird...
I've created an HTML Content Layout to display ITEMS on my own way.
If i want to display the CREATEDATE like this
htp.p('#ITEM.CRETEDATE.VALUE#');
or like this
htp.p(to_date('#ITEM.CRETEDATE.VALUE#', 'DD/MM/YY'));
everything's correct.
But if i want to display the PUBLISH_DATE like this :
htp.p('#ITEM.PUBLISHDATE.VALUE#'); ---> OK
but
htp.p(to_date('#ITEM.PUBLISHDATE.VALUE#', 'DD/MM/YY')); ---> returns nothing !
Same behaviour with my own "DATE attribute".
htp.p(to_date('#ITEM.MYDATE.VALUE#', 'DD/MM/YY')); returns nothing...
Thanks for any ideas.
Max.

Answer 1

I think the problem is that the publish date includes date AND time so you'll need to also add the time format when doing TO_DATE. Then you can TO_CHAR it to whatever format you want to show, if you want it different than the default for your system. In the following, I'm changing the date format on our system to be shown as DD/MM/YYYY w/o the time.
HTP.P(TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('#ITEM.PUBLISHDATE.VALUE#','DD-MON-YYYY HH12:MI PM'),'DD/MM/YYYY'));