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jim smith
jim smith

Reputation: 2454

Today's date JSP

I've found myself working on some old JSP and want to do something simple like display today's date in dd/mm/yyyy format

Doesn't seem to be that simple,

So far I've imported java.util.*

And I've tried various things like

String df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy");

However, to no avail...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 48964

Answers (5)

Sarath Kumar pgm
Sarath Kumar pgm

Reputation: 131

d will stores the current date only...it works <% long millis=System.currentTimeMillis();
java.sql.Date d=new java.sql.Date(millis); %>

Upvotes: 0

KV Prajapati
KV Prajapati

Reputation: 94643

A cleaner approach is to use JSTL - <fmt:formatDate/> tags.

<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>

<jsp:useBean id="now" class="java.util.Date"/>    
<fmt:formatDate value="${now}" dateStyle="long"/>
<fmt:formatDate value="${now}" pattern="dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss a z" />

Upvotes: 16

Razvan
Razvan

Reputation: 10093

You can use this:

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();

and then use some of the Calendar fields as needed, e.g.:

int dayOfMonth = now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
String dayOfMonthStr = ((dayOfMonth < 10) ? "0" : "") + month;
int month = now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;
String monthStr = ((month < 10) ? "0" : "") + month;
System.out.print(dayOfMonthStr+"/"+monthStr+"/"+now.get(Calendar.Year));

To follow your original idea, I think you should do something like:

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yy");
sdf.format(new Date());

Upvotes: 4

William
William

Reputation: 1

First, you have to set date as 

Date dNow = new Date( );

This coding helps to call date. Now, we have to set date format with coding as

new SimpleDateFormat ("dd.MM.yyyy");

This is the simple coding for date. If you need to make any other changes in font and position then you can do it.

Upvotes: 0

Reporter
Reporter

Reputation: 3948

Based on your given information you have imported java.util.* libraries. This is not enough. If you want using SimpleDateFormat you have to imported it. Add

<%@page import="java.text.SimpleDateFormat" %>

to the top of your jsp file. After that define the format what you want to get

Example: <%! final static String DATE_FORMAT_NOW = "dd/MM/yy"; %>

After that try

<%
  SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_NOW);
%>

Upvotes: 1

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