Description

Format Date object in different ways.

The date tag will allow you to format a Date in a quick and easy way. You can specify a custom format (eg. "dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm"), you can generate easy readable notations (like "in 2 hours, 14 minutes"), or you can just fall back on a predefined format with key 'webwork.date.format' in your properties file.

If that key is not defined, it will finally fall back to the default DateFormat.MEDIUM formatting.

Note: If the requested Date object isn't found on the stack, a blank will be returned.

Configurable attributes are :-

• name
• nice
• format

Following how the date component will work, depending on the value of nice attribute (which by default is false) and the format attribute.

Condition 1: With nice attribute as true

i18n key	default
webwork.date.format.past	{0} ago
webwork.date.format.future	in {0}
webwork.date.format.seconds	an instant
webwork.date.format.minutes	{0,choice,1#one minute|1<{0} minutes}
webwork.date.format.hours	{0,choice,1#one hour|1<{0} hours}{1,choice,0#|1#, one minute|1<, {1} minutes}
webwork.date.format.days	{0,choice,1#one day|1<{0} days}{1,choice,0#|1#, one hour|1<, {1} hours}
webwork.date.format.years	{0,choice,1#one year|1<{0} years}{1,choice,0#|1#, one day|1<, {1} days}

Condition 2: With nice attribute as false and format attribute is specified eg. dd/MM/yyyyy

In this case the format attribute will be used.

Condition 3: With nice attribute as false and no format attribute is specified

i18n key	default
webwork.date.format	if one is not found DateFormat.MEDIUM format will be used

Parameters

Name	Required	Default	Type	Description
format	false		Object/String	Date or DateTime format pattern
nice	false	false	Boolean	Whether to print out the date nicely
name	true		String	The date value to format
id	false		Object/String	id for referencing element. For UI and form tags it will be used as HTML id attribute

Examples

<ww:date name="person.birthday" format="dd/MM/yyyy" />
<ww:date name="person.birthday" format="%{getText('some.i18n.key')}" />
<ww:date name="person.birthday" nice="true" />
<ww:date name="person.birthday" />