Time formatting in jsp

Question

Hi,
I am creating one portal component in JSPDynPage in which I
have to show auto generated date & time of xml news/article.
Date & Time is generated but it is in
MM/DD/YY - HH/MM/SS i.e. 10/23/2008 - 15:15:22 format .         But i want to display it as   10/23/2008  - 03:15 PM
I have to format the time in my JSPcode.
Anybody have any idea/code for this?

Answer 1

Hello Vishal,
Try out Java MessageFormat class. there you can format a Date Object as you like, i.e.:
import java.text.MessageFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class Test {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
MessageFormat mf_MESSAGE_PRINT_DATE = new MessageFormat("This document was printed {0,date,MM/dd/yyyy}.");
String MESSAGE_PRINT_DATE = mf_MESSAGE_PRINT_DATE.format( new Object[] {new Date()});
System.out.println("--- "+MESSAGE_PRINT_DATE);
MessageFormat mf_MESSAGE_PRINT_DATE2 = new MessageFormat("u3053u306Eu30C9u30ADu30E5u30E1u30F3u30C8u306F{0,date,yyyy}u5E74{0,date,MM}u6708{0,date,dd}u65E5u306Bu5370u5237u3055u308Cu307Eu3057u305Fu3002");
String MESSAGE_PRINT_DATE2 = mf_MESSAGE_PRINT_DATE2.format( new Object[] {new Date()});
System.out.println("--- "+MESSAGE_PRINT_DATE2);
Best Regards, Thomas