Formatting a date inside a colum tag

Question

Hi eveyone
I am trying to format the column of a table so that the date will display in a certain format.
The code that I use is doing nothing - apart from staring at me!!
This is the snippet...
<display:column property="departDate" sort="true"
         headerClass="sortable"
        paramId="departDate" paramProperty="departDate"
        title="Depart Date"
        class="departDate">
        <fmt:parseDate value="${departDate}" type="date" pattern="dd/mm/yyyy" var="parsed" />
        <fmt:formatDate value="${parsed}" type="date" dateStyle="full"/>       
    </display:column>Regards

Answer 1

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
public class DateFormatter {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
          double[] limits = {1, 2, 3, 4, 21, 22, 23, 24};
          String[] dateFormats = {"st", "nd", "rd", "th", "st", "nd", "rd", "th"};
          ChoiceFormat choiceFormat = new ChoiceFormat(limits, dateFormats);
          String dateFormat = "EEEEE dd''{0}'' MMMMM";
          MessageFormat messageFormat = new MessageFormat(dateFormat);
          messageFormat.setFormat(0, choiceFormat);
          Object[] msgArgs = {
               new Integer(calendar.get(Calendar.DATE))
          String message = messageFormat.format(msgArgs);
          System.out.println(message);
          SimpleDateFormat date = new SimpleDateFormat(message);
          System.out.println(date.format(calendar.getTime()));
}