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xdevel2000
xdevel2000

Reputation: 21364

JSTL <fmt:formatData> time zone problem

If I'm in Europe, Germany, and I use:

<fmt:formatDate value="${now}" type="BOTH" timeZone="America/Los_Angeles"/>

the date and time are formatted always as

17-05-2011 1.32.10

and not as in English format with first month and then day.

Only the time zone is corrected.

Why?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1634

Answers (2)

kschneid
kschneid

Reputation: 5694

If you don't want to use an explicit pattern and always want to force the use of a single locale, you can try including the following in your web.xml:

<context-param>
    <param-name>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.locale</param-name>
    <param-value>en_US</param-value>
</context-param>

You shouldn't have to use <fmt:setLocale> with this approach. You can also get and set configuration data through the javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.core.Config class (for example, in a listener, filter or servlet).

Upvotes: 1

Jigar Joshi
Jigar Joshi

Reputation: 240928

You need to override pattern also, overriding timezone won't change the output format

<fmt:formatDate value="${now}" type="BOTH" timeZone="America/Los_Angeles" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm"/>

Upvotes: 2

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