DO NOT REPLY [Bug 45620] New: formatDate fails when local is missing

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45620

           Summary: formatDate fails when local is missing
           Product: Taglibs
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: NeedsReleaseNote
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: I18N Taglib
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]


Some browsers (IE from GoogleEarth) do not pass local information in the HTTP
header for the request, therefore request.getLocale() returns null.  When this
happens the following tag fails even though a pattern and timezone are
specified:

<fmt:formatDate value="${d}" pattern="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm z" timeZone="GMT"/>
The above just prints out d.toString()

SimpleDateFormat has all the elements it needs for a successful format, it
should format the date as expected instead of using d.toString()


Workaround:
You can add the following to your JSP and it will work.
<c:choose>
    <c:when test="${request.locale == null}">
        <fmt:setLocale value="en_US" />
    </c:when>
</c:choose>


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