Re: Formatting a date
"Nikhil G. Daddikar" <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:56:19 +0530
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070908010502080507010503 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have written a static function and then use the "Functions" feature. The static function uses a per-request SimpleDateFormat so it is quite efficient. So in webmacro I can write: <input type="text" value="$formatInputDate($d)"> OR <td>$formatDate($d)</td> etc. Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes wrote: > On Mon 27 March 2006 11:00, Marc Palmer wrote: > >> On 27 Mar 2006, at 02:47, Sven Schliesing wrote: >> >>> That's exactly what I looked for. >>> >> There's another, potentially cleaner way... >> >> ----------------- "mymacros.wmm": >> >> #macro formatDate($d) >> $Text.formatDate($d, "dd.MM.yyyy, HH:mm") >> #end >> >> ----------------- "yourtemplate.wmt": >> >> #include as macro "mymacros.wmm" >> >> #formatDate($createdAt) >> > > Just to jump in for a moment - this will create a new SimpleDateFormat object > every single time that it is invoked. If you know that you are going to be > formatting a lot of different dates with the same format then it is > considerably more efficient to drop in a dedicated wrapper around an instance > of SimpleDateFormat that gives you the format that you want as otherwise each > time that you invoke it, it will have to parse your "dd.MM.yyyy, HH:mm" > format string, build the internal representation and then format the Date > which is relatively expensive. > > <snip> > > Alex > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Webmacro-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webmacro-user > --------------070908010502080507010503 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by speedo.celoxis.com id k2RAFuPT005654 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content=3D"text/html;charset=3DUTF-8" http-equiv=3D"Content-Type"= > </head> <body bgcolor=3D"#ffffff" text=3D"#000000"> <br> <br> I have written a static function and then use the "Functions" feature. The static function uses a per-request SimpleDateFormat so it is quite efficient.=C2=A0 So in webmacro I can write:<br> <br> <input type=3D"text" value=3D"$formatInputDate($d)"> OR<br> <br> <td>$formatDate($d)</td><br> <br> etc.<br> <br> <br> Alex Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes wrote: <blockquote cite=3D"[email protected]" type=3D"cite"= > <pre wrap=3D"">On Mon 27 March 2006 11:00, Marc Palmer wrote: </pre> <blockquote type=3D"cite"> <pre wrap=3D"">On 27 Mar 2006, at 02:47, Sven Schliesing wrote: </pre> <blockquote type=3D"cite"> <pre wrap=3D"">That's exactly what I looked for. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=3D"">There's another, potentially cleaner way... ----------------- "mymacros.wmm": #macro formatDate($d) $Text.formatDate($d, "dd.MM.yyyy, HH:mm") #end ----------------- "yourtemplate.wmt": #include as macro "mymacros.wmm" #formatDate($createdAt) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=3D""><!----> Just to jump in for a moment - this will create a new SimpleDateFormat ob= ject=20 every single time that it is invoked. If you know that you are going to = be=20 formatting a lot of different dates with the same format then it is=20 considerably more efficient to drop in a dedicated wrapper around an inst= ance=20 of SimpleDateFormat that gives you the format that you want as otherwise = each=20 time that you invoke it, it will have to parse your "dd.MM.yyyy, HH:mm"=20 format string, build the internal representation and then format the Date= =20 which is relatively expensive. <snip> Alex ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting langua= ge that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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