Re: Formatting a date

Sven Schliesing wrote:

> is there a shorter way for this?
> $Text.formatDate($createdAt, "dd.MM.yyyy, HH:mm")

If you define the method as a function you can make it a bit shorter.  
One way is to add this to your WebMacro.properties file:

Functions.formatDate=org.webmacro.servlet.TextTool.formatDate

Then you can drop the Text part, and use:

$formatDate($createdAt, "dd.MM.yyyy, HH:mm")

Other options would be to drop a date formatter into your context and use that, 
or develop your own DateTool or something like that.  You could even create a custom 
date object with predefined formats.  E.g.,

#bean $wmDate=WMDate initArgs=$createdAt
$wmDate.DATETIME1

Hope this helps.

Keats

>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Sven
>




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