Convert and format a Date in JSP
JspDate FormatJsp Problem Overview
From my JSP Page, I am getting Date in this format.
> Fri May 13 2011 19:59:09 GMT 0530 (India Standard Time)
How can I convert this to the pattern yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss?
Jsp Solutions
Solution 1 - Jsp
In JSP, you'd normally like to use JSTL <fmt:formatDate> for this. You can of course also throw in a scriptlet with SimpleDateFormat, but scriptlets are strongly discouraged since 2003.
Assuming that ${bean.date} returns java.util.Date, here's how you can use it:
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
...
<fmt:formatDate value="${bean.date}" pattern="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" />
If you're actually using a java.util.Calendar, then you can invoke its getTime() method to get a java.util.Date out of it that <fmt:formatDate> accepts:
<fmt:formatDate value="${bean.calendar.time}" pattern="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" />
Or, if you're actually holding the date in a java.lang.String (this indicates a serious design mistake in the model; you should really fix your model to store dates as java.util.Date instead of as java.lang.String!), here's how you can convert from one date string format e.g. MM/dd/yyyy to another date string format e.g. yyyy-MM-dd with help of JSTL <fmt:parseDate>.
<fmt:parseDate pattern="MM/dd/yyyy" value="${bean.dateString}" var="parsedDate" />
<fmt:formatDate value="${parsedDate}" pattern="yyyy-MM-dd" />
Solution 2 - Jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>JSP with the current date</title>
</head>
<body>
<%java.text.DateFormat df = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); %>
<h1>Current Date: <%= df.format(new java.util.Date()) %> </h1>
</body>
</html>
Output: Current Date: 10/03/2010
Solution 3 - Jsp
Date td = new Date();
String b = new String("");
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("YYYY/MM/dd");
b = format.format(td);
out.println(b);
Solution 4 - Jsp
The example above showing the import with ...sun.com/jsp/jstl/format is incorrect (meaning it didn't work for me).
Instead try the below -this import statement is valid
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %><%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core-rt" prefix="c-rt" %><%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Format Date</title>
</head>
<body>
<c-rt:set var="now" value="<%=new java.util.Date()%>" />
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111"
width="63%" id="AutoNumber2">
<tr>
<td width="100%" colspan="2" bgcolor="#0000FF">
<p align="center">
<b>
<font color="#FFFFFF" size="4">Formatting:
<fmt:formatDate value="${now}" type="both"
timeStyle="long" dateStyle="long" />
</font>
</b>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
Solution 5 - Jsp
<%@page import="java.text.SimpleDateFormat"%>
<%@page import="java.util.Date"%>
<%@page import="java.util.Locale"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Date Format</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
String stringDate = "Fri May 13 2011 19:59:09 GMT 0530";
Date stringDate1 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss Z", Locale.ENGLISH).parse(stringDate);
String stringDate2 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").format(stringDate1);
out.println(stringDate2);
%>
</body>
</html>
Solution 6 - Jsp
You can do that using the SimpleDateFormat class.
SimpleDateFormat formatter=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String dates=formatter.format(mydate);
//mydate is your date object