DateTool and locale setting

Christopher Schultz <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:59:41 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.jakarta.velocity.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

All,

Umm... I probably should have noticed this long before today, but I just
observed a problem with my configuration and I wanted to make sure that
my (new) understanding of the DateTool is correct.

So, I had DateTool configured to be an "application" level tool. That
appears to have been a mistake.

What I just observed is that the first user to trigger the creation of
the DateTool tool ends up permanently-setting the locale for the tool to
their preferred locale. Whoops.

So the solution should be simply to change the "scope" of the tool from
application to session, right?

I should have realized that DateTool wasn't tied to the servlet API in
any way, so sniffing the locale from the request (which is what I
expected) is not really a possibility. Duh.

Thanks,
-chris

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